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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

For the Northern District of California

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

EDWARD GUTIERREZ,

Plaintiff,

 v.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY

DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS, MEDICAL

DEPARTMENT,

Defendants. ___________________________ 

 

EDWARD GUTIERREZ,

Plaintiff,

 v.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY

DEPARTMENT OF

CORRECTIONS, DENTAL

DEPARTMENT,

Defendants. ___________________________ 

 

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No. C 07-4251 MMC (PR) 

No. C 07-5999 MMC (PR) 

ORDER STAYING PROCEEDINGS

AND ADMINISTRATIVELY

CLOSING CASES; DIRECTIONS

TO CLERK

In 2007, plaintiff, a California pretrial detainee incarcerated at the Santa Clara County

Jail (“SCCJ”) and proceeding pro se, filed the above-titled civil rights actions pursuant to 42

U.S.C. § 1983, claiming he was receiving inadequate medical and dental care at the SCCJ. 

The Court granted plaintiff leave to proceed in forma pauperis in both actions, and dismissed

both complaints with leave to amend to cure the noted deficiencies, specifically, plaintiff’s

failure to name and to adequately connect the defendants to his claims.

Recently, plaintiff wrote a letter informing the Court that he is in the midst of complex

criminal trial proceedings and is unable to meet the Court’s deadline for filing his amended

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United States District Court

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Plaintiff must use the court’s form civil rights complaint to file his amended

complaints. With respect to each amended complaint, plaintiff shall complete the form and

include in the caption both the case number of the relevant action and the words

“AMENDED COMPLAINT.” 

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complaint in action No. C 07-5999. Specifically, plaintiff states he will need “at least 90

days to completely investigate and amend this complaint.” (Letter, filed May 8, 2008.) 

Plaintiff did not write a similar letter in action No. C 07-4251; in view of the fact that

plaintiff has not filed his amended complaint therein, however, the Court assumes plaintiff’s

ongoing criminal proceedings pose the same hurdles with respect to plaintiff’s meeting the

Court’s deadlines in action No. C 07-4251 as they do in action No. C 07-5999. 

Based on the foregoing, the Court finds it would not prove efficient to grant plaintiff a

limited extension of time to file his amended complaints where, due to the ongoing nature of

plaintiff’s state criminal proceedings, there is no indication such extension of time will be

sufficient and it instead appears that further extensions likely will be required. 

Consequently, in the interest of justice and good cause appearing, the Court will stay

the instant actions until plaintiff’s state criminal proceedings have concluded, at which time

plaintiff may, in each case, file a motion to lift the stay. Upon filing such motion in each

case, plaintiff must at the same time file, in the relevant case, the amended complaint

required by the Court’s order of dismissal with leave to amend.1

 Should plaintiff fail to do so

in either or both cases, said case or cases will be dismissed without prejudice. 

Accordingly, the above-titled actions are hereby STAYED. The Clerk is hereby

directed to ADMINISTRATIVELY CLOSE both cases, and to provide plaintiff with two

copies of the court’s form civil rights complaint and two return envelopes 

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: September 19, 2008 _________________________

MAXINE M. CHESNEY

United States District Judge

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