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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RODEY LEE BIGLER,

Plaintiff,

 v.

OFFICER DANIEL FORBUS, et al.,

Defendants. /

No. C 09-02498 SBA (PR)

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S

MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AN

AMENDED COMPLAINT AND

DENYING HIS REMAINING PENDING

REQUESTS AS MOOT

Before the Court is Plaintiff's request for leave to file an amended complaint. 

A plaintiff may amend his complaint once as a matter of course at any time before a

responsive pleading is served. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a). Where a plaintiff seeks to amend after a

responsive pleading has already been served, however, the decision whether to grant leave to amend

is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court. Waits v. Weller, 653 F.2d 1288, 1290 (9th

Cir. 1981). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a) is to be applied liberally in favor of amendments

and, in general, leave shall be freely given when justice so requires. Janicki Logging Co. v. Mateer,

42 F.3d 561, 566 (9th Cir. 1994).

The Court notes that the defendants in this action have not been served at this time. Plaintiff

may as a matter of course amend his complaint because a responsive pleading has not yet been

served. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a). Accordingly, Plaintiff's motion for leave to file an amended

complaint (docket no. 6) is GRANTED. 

The Clerk of the Court is directed to file the document attached to Plaintiff's motion, which is

labeled "Complaint Under the Civil Rights Act, Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Current as of 06/27/09," and

docket the aforementioned document as Plaintiff's "First Amended Complaint." The Court notes

that the pages of Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint, which were attached to the motion, appear to

have been shuffled and placed out of order. The Clerk is directed to place the pages in the following

order: (1) start with pages 21 through 23; (2) attach pages 8 through 16; and (3) attach exhibits

beginning with page 4, then page 6, page 5, and page 7. The Clerk is further directed to mark the

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 The Court notes that Plaintiff has since been granted in forma pauperis status.

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First Amended Complaint as filed on July 1, 2009, the date it was received by the Court. The Court

will review Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint in a separate written Order.

Also before the Court is Plaintiff's request for an order directing prison officials at San

Quentin State Prison (SQSP) to allow him access to the law library and to provide him with "legal

pads, envelopes, copys [sic], pens, postage, etc." (Pl.'s Mot. at 3.) Plaintiff also requests the Court

to order the warden of SQSP to "return or produce this Plaintiff's certificate of funds . . . ."1 (Id. at

1.) Since Plaintiff has filed the aforementioned motion, he has been released from SQSP. Clerk's

staff has been informed that Plaintiff was released on parole on January 20, 2010. The record shows

that Plaintiff's new address is: 1010 Emerline Avenue, Building C, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. 

Accordingly, Plaintiff's request for an order directing prison officials at SQSP to provide Plaintiff

with the items listed above (docket no. 6) is DENIED as moot.

This Order terminates Docket no. 6.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: 3/16/10 

SAUNDRA BROWN ARMSTRONG

United States District Judge

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RODEY LEE BIGLER,

Plaintiff,

 v.

DEANIEL FORBUS et al,

Defendant. /

Case Number: CV09-02498 SBA 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. District

Court, Northern District of California.

That on March 18, 2010, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing said

copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by depositing said

envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery receptacle

located in the Clerk's office.

Rodney Lee Bigler

1010 Emerline Avenue

Building C

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Dated: March 18, 2010

Richard W. Wieking, Clerk

By: LISA R CLARK, Deputy Clerk

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