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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LONNIE WILLIAMS,

Plaintiff,

v.

P. RODRIGUEZ, et al., 

Defendants.

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1:09-cv-01882-LJO-GSA-PC 

ORDER RESPONDING TO NOTICE TO

CORRECT THE RECORD

(Doc. 17.) 

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST

TO DISREGARD THE FIRST AMENDED

COMPLAINT

 Lonnie Williams (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis

in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff filed the original complaint

on October 27, 2009. (Doc. 1.) On November 16, 2009, Plaintiff filed an amended complaint

("First Amended Complaint"). (Doc. 5.) On May 13, 2010, Plaintiff filed a notice to the court to

correct the record. (Doc. 17.)

Plaintiff contends that he has never filed an amended complaint against a defendant

named Edward S. Alameida, Jr., and he requests the court to disregard the First Amended

Complaint, maintaining that it must have been filed by someone else. Moreover, Plaintiff

maintains that he has never filed any amended complaint in this action.

The court has reviewed the record in this action and has discovered the origin of the

wrongly-named defendant. In the court's orders of April 30, 2010, May 3, 2010, and May 13,

2010, the court inadvertently named Edward S. Alameida, Jr. as a defendant in the case caption

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appearing at the beginning of the orders. (Docs. 13, 14, 16.) In so doing, the court did not

intend to represent that Plaintiff had filed an amended complaint against Edward S. Alameida, Jr. 

Plaintiff is correct that he has never named Edward S. Alameida, Jr. as a defendant in this action,

either in the original complaint or the amended complaint. The court has corrected the case

caption of this action to reflect the correct names of the defendants named by Plaintiff.

With regard to Plaintiff's contention that he has never filed any amended complaint in this

action, the court has examined the record and finds a ninety-one-page First Amended Complaint

filed November 16, 2009, by Plaintiff Lonnie Williams against defendants P. Rodriguez, the

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Darrell Adams, A. Rivas, B. Sanders,

D. Hill, M.J. Cisneros, D.L. De'Azevedo, and other named defendants, for failure to protect

plaintiff and for subjecting plaintiff to arsenic poisoning. (Doc. 5.) The First Amended

Complaint appears to be written in the same distinctive handwriting used by Plaintiff in the

original complaint and other case documents, and to contain Plaintiff's distinctive signature. 

With this evidence on the record, Plaintiff's request for the court to disregard the First Amended

Complaint shall be denied. The court shall send Plaintiff a portion of the First Amended

Complaint for his review.

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:

1. Plaintiff's request for the court to disregard the First Amended Complaint is

DENIED; and

2. The Clerk is DIRECTED to send to Plaintiff copies of the first five pages of the

First Amended Complaint filed on November 16, 2009 (Doc. 5.).

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: May 20, 2010 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

6i0kij UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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