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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DOUGAL SAMUELS,

 Plaintiff,

 vs.

PAM AHLIN, et al.,

 Defendants.

1:10-cv-00585-EPG-PC

ORDER REQUESTING CLARIFICATION 

FROM PLAINTIFF

THIRTY DAY DEADLINE TO RESPOND

This order is being issued for Plaintiff to clarify whether he intended to omit Stephen 

Mayberg, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, and the Governor of California as defendants in 

this case when he filed the Second Amended Complaint. Plaintiff shall have thirty days to 

respond. 

I. BACKGROUND

Dougal Samuels (“Plaintiff”) is a civil detainee proceeding pro se and in forma 

pauperis with this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. ' 1983. Plaintiff filed the 

Complaint commencing this action on April 5, 2010. (ECF No. 1.) On November 2, 2012, 

Plaintiff filed the First Amended Complaint. (ECF No. 15.) On October 1, 2014, the Court 

found that Plaintiff stated cognizable claims in the First Amended Complaint against 

defendants Pam Ahlin, Stephen Mayberg, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, and the 

Governor of California, on Plaintiff’s safe-conditions claim under the Due Process Clause. 

(ECF No. 24.) 

On June 25, 2015, Plaintiff requested leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to 

identify the Doe Defendants. (ECF No. 31.) On October 9, 2015, the Court granted Plaintiff 

leave to file a Second Amended Complaint for the limited purpose of identifying the Doe 

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Defendants. (ECF No. 32.) On December 2, 2015, Plaintiff filed the Second Amended 

Complaint. (ECF No. 36.)

II. SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT

Plaintiff names eleven defendants in the Second Amended Complaint: Pam Ahlin, 

Audrey King, Brandon Price, Robert Withrow, Karin Hundal, Ron Howard, Peter Bresler, 

Cynthia A. Radavsky, Orange County Public Defender’s Office, Office of Patient’s Rights, and 

the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. 

Notably, the Second Amended Complaint does not name three of the defendants that

were named in the First Amended Complaint and against whom the Court found cognizable 

claims under the Due Process Clause. (See Court’s Order, ECF No. 24.) The three defendants 

omitted from the Second Amended Complaint are Stephen Mayberg, Fresno County Board of 

Supervisors, and the Governor of California. The Court requests clarification from Plaintiff of 

his intentions.1

III. CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that within thirty days of the date 

of service of this order, Plaintiff shall respond in writing to this order, clarifying whether he 

intended to remove defendants Stephen Mayberg, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, and the 

Governor of California from this case when he filed the Second Amended Complaint.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 16, 2016 /s/

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

 

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Plaintiff was informed in the Court’s order of October 9, 2015 that “an amended complaint 

supercedes the original complaint . . , and it must be complete in itself without reference to the prior or superceded 

pleading. Local Rule 220. Once an amended complaint is filed, the original complaint no longer serves any 

function in the case.” (ECF No. 32 at 4:15-18.) Accordingly, Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint, which does 

not include defendants Stephen Mayberg, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, and the Governor of California, is 

now the operative complaint for this case.

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