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

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BRANDON FAVOR, CDCR #G-60488;

LUIS MANUEL GARCES, 

CDCR #V-47652,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No.: 3:17-cv-00587-CAB-JMA

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO 

WITHDRAW COMPLAINT AND 

STRIKING MOTION FOR 

EXTENSION OF TIME 

[ECF Nos. 3, 5]

On March 20, 2017, “Brandon Favor, LLP,” a prisoner incarcerated at California 

Correctional Institution (“CCI”) in Tehachapi, filed a civil rights complaint pursuant to 

42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of a fellow inmate, Manuel Luis Garces. (ECF No. 1). 

The Complaint is not signed by Garces, but is instead signed by Favor, who claims 

to be a limited liability partnership doing business as “Miller & Miller Associates, 3307 

West 43rd Street, Los Angeles, California.”

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(ECF No. 1 at 1, 8.) The pleading contains 

constitutional catchphrases like “freedom from cruel and unusual punishment,” “equal 

protection,” and “due process,” but it contains no factual allegations whatsoever, and it 

 

1 According the California State Bar website, the address provided by Favor is for Halvor Thomas Miller, 

Jr., California State Bar #40247, an attorney who is no longer eligible to practice law in California. See

http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/40247 (last visited June 29, 2017).

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seeks injunctive relief preventing “further prosecution,” and ordering “immediate release 

with or by bond/bail.” (Id. at 4-7.) 

Neither Favor nor Garces paid the $400 civil filing fee required to commence a 

civil action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a), and neither had filed a Motion to Proceed In 

Forma Pauperis (“IFP”) pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). Indeed, Brandon Favor, CDCR 

#G-60488, is no longer entitled to proceed IFP as a result of his frivolous filing. See 

Favor v. Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, et al., S.D. Cal. Civil Case No. 3:15-

cv-01547-AJB (DHB) (Oct. 21, 2015) (Order denying leave to proceed IFP pursuant to 

28 U.S.C. § 1915(g)) (ECF No. 7); Bias v. Moynihan, 508 F.3d 1212, 1225 (9th Cir. 

2007) (court “‘may take notice of proceedings in other courts, both within and without 

the federal judicial system, if those proceedings have a direct relation to matters at 

issue.’”) (quoting Bennett v. Medtronic, Inc., 285 F.3d 801, 803 n.2 (9th Cir. 2002)). 

Therefore, this case is subject to immediately dismissal for this reason alone.

However, on April 5, 2017, Plaintiff Garces filed a Motion requesting the 

“withdrawal” of the Complaint “without prejudice,” acknowledging it was filed by Favor. 

Garces also requests no further “document, motion, complaint or request ... be filed on 

[his] behalf ... by Mr. Brandon Favor.” (ECF No. 3 at 1.) 

Conclusion and Order

The Court construes Garces’ request as a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal and 

GRANTS his Motion to Withdraw pursuant to FED. R. CIV. P. 41(a)(1) (ECF No. 3). The 

case is DISMISSED without prejudice. Brandon Favor’s subsequent Motion for 

Extension of Time (ECF No. 5) is STRICKEN from the record.

The Clerk shall enter judgment accordingly. IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 30, 2017

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