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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

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RONNIE LEE MOODY,

Plaintiff,

v.

CHIBA, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 15-cv-05869-JSC 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

Plaintiff, a California prisoner, has filed this pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. 

§ 1983, along with an application to proceed in forma pauperis. The complaint makes the same 

claims of excessive force against officers at the San Francisco County Jail as the in forma pauperis 

complaint that Plaintiff filed in his earlier case, Moody v. Simms, et al., No. C 15-4198 JSC (PR). 

Plaintiff’s earlier case is currently pending. An in forma pauperis complaint that is duplicative 

insofar as it merely repeats claims raised in a prior case, like the complaint herein, may be 

considered abusive and dismissed under the authority of section 1915(e). Cato v. United States, 

70 F.3d 1103, 1105 n.2 (9th Cir. 1995); see also Bailey v. Johnson, 846 F.2d 1019, 1021 (5th Cir. 

1988) (same). Any claims Plaintiff wishes to raise arising out of the events alleged in Plaintiff’s 

earlier case must be raised in that case, not in a complaint filed in a new case. Accordingly, this 

action is DISMISSED. 

The Clerk shall close the file and enter judgment.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 26, 2016

JACQUELINE SCOTT CORLEY

United States Magistrate Judge

Case 3:15-cv-05869-JSC Document 7 Filed 01/26/16 Page 1 of 1