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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHARLES BROOKS, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

VALENZUELA, 

Defendant. 

Case No.18-cv-01528-JSW 

ORDER DENYING LEAVE TO FILE A 

SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT; 

GRANTING EXTENSION OF TIME 

Re: Dkt. Nos. 50, 51, 52 

Plaintiff is an inmate at San Quentin State Prison (“SQSP”). Proceeding pro se, he filed 

this civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendants’ summary judgment motion was granted 

in part. Specifically, all of the claims save one were found to be unexhausted. The only exhausted 

claim was against Valenzuela for preventing him from attending religious services on one 

occasion. Valenzuela was ordered to file, and has filed, a motion for summary judgment on the 

merits of this claim. 

Plaintiff moved for leave to file a second amended complaint and has submitted a proposed 

second amended complaint. Defendant was ordered to show cause why it should not be allowed 

and has shown that allowing it to be filed would be futile. The second amended complaint adds 

claims against a supervisor, the SQSP Warden Davis, but does not allege Davis’s personal 

involvement in or otherwise caused the alleged deprivation, as is required for supervisorial 

liability. See Henry A. v. Willden, 678 F.3d 991, 1003-04 (9th Cir. 2012). Davis’s failure to grant 

his administrative grievance does not state a cognizable claim for relief. See Ramirez v. Galaza, 

334 F.3d 850, 860 (9th Cir. 2003). Plaintiff also offers no reason for failing to bring this claim 

earlier. 

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Plaintiff’s proposed second amended complaint also seeks to renew claims against 

defendant Thompson that were already found to be unexhausted. Plaintiff states that he 

inadvertently misnamed Thompson in one of his grievances.1 The failure to name Thompson 

properly in the grievance runs afoul of the prison regulations governing exhaustion, Cal. Code 

Regs., tit. 15, § 3084.2(a) and (a)(3), which regulations control whether or not the claim was 

“properly” exhausted within the meaning of the PLRA, see Jones v. Bock, 549 U.S. 199, 217-18 

(2007). Plaintiff cites no authority that non-exhaustion is excused where an inmate names the 

wrong Defendant in a grievance, even when he does so inadvertently. 

Because the second amended complaint adds claims that are not viable, allowing plaintiff 

to file it would be futile. Accordingly, leave to file the second amended complaint is DENIED. 

Plaintiff’s motion for an extension of time in which to file an opposition to Valenzuela’s 

motion for summary judgment, to and including September 19, 2019, is GRANTED. Valenzuela 

shall file a reply brief within 14 days of the date any opposition is filed. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: August 26, 2019 

 

JEFFREY S. WHITE 

United States District Judge 

 

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 This grievance in any event only raises one of the instances in which Thompson allegedly 

violated Plaintiff’s rights. 

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHARLES BROOKS, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

VALENZUELA, 

Defendant. 

Case No. 18-cv-01528-JSW 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California. 

That on August 26, 2019, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by 

placing said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office. 

Charles Brooks ID: E90514 

San Quentin State Prison 

San Quentin, CA 94974 

Dated: August 26, 2019 

Susan Y. Soong 

Clerk, United States District Court 

By:________________________ 

Kelly Collins, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable JEFFREY S. WHITE 

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