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

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TIMOTHY JACKSON SEELEY

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-04-1800 DFL CMK P

vs.

TERSEA A. SCHWARTZ, et al.,

Defendants.

 / ORDER

Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding in forma pauperis and without counsel,

brings this action against defendants alleging violations of his First Amendment rights and of

his statutory rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). 

Currently before the court is defendants’ “Request for Judicial Notice of Complaint Plaintiff

Served on Defendants.” (Doc. 93). 

On March 10, 2005, the court granted plaintiff’s motion to file an amended

complaint, and directed the clerk to file the proposed amended complaint submitted by plaintiff

on March 7, 2005. The March 7, 2005 complaint was fifteen pages long. In the March 10, 2005

order, the court directed the Clerk of the Court to send plaintiff, among other things, USM-285

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forms and a copy of the March 7, 2005 amended complaint. Plaintiff was to complete the forms

and return the forms and copies of the complaint to the court for service. Plaintiff submitted the

documents on March 21, 2005. 

The complaint which plaintiff submitted for service and which was served on

defendants was the March 7, 2005 fifteen page amended complaint plus an additional eighty-one

pages of attachments. Defendants have now submitted the compliant and the attachments which

were served on them and have requested judicial notice. 

Pursuant to Rule 201 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the court takes

judicial notice of the complaint which was served on defendants. Further, the court finds that the

complaint served on defendants is the operative complaint in this proceeding. 

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. The defendants’ request for judicial notice is granted;

2. The complaint served on defendants is the operative complaint in this action;

and

3.. The Clerk of the Court is directed to file the complaint which was served on

defendants, which is attached to Defendants’ Request for Judicial Notice of the Complaint

Plaintiff Served on Defendants” (doc. 93) as exhibit 1, parts A and B.

DATED: February 9, 2006.

______________________________________

CRAIG M. KELLISON

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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