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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

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

GUILLERMO TRUJILLO CRUZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

M. BITER, et al., 

Defendants.

Case No. 1:14-cv-01370 DLB PC

ORDER CONSTRUING PLAINTIFF’S 

AMENDED COMPLAINT AS A MOTION 

TO AMEND AND AMENDED 

COMPLAINT

[ECF No. 13]

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S 

MOTION TO AMEND

Plaintiff Guillermo Trujillo Cruz, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma 

pauperis, filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on September 2, 2014. 

Plaintiff consented to the jurisdiction of the Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) on 

September 17, 2014.

On January 9, 2015, Plaintiff filed a pleading captioned as a motion to amend. Although 

captioned as a motion, the pleading presented as an amended complaint. Therefore, on February 

11, 2015, the Court construed the filing as a First Amended Complaint. Under Fed. R. Civ. P. 

15(a), a party may amend its pleading once as a matter of course within 21 days after serving it. 

Since the initial complaint had not yet been screened and served, Plaintiff’s amended complaint

was filed as a matter of course. 

On March 9, 2015, Plaintiff filed a pleading entitled First Amended Complaint. Insofar 

as the Court has already construed Plaintiff’s earlier filing as a First Amended Complaint, the 

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Court will construe this new filing as a motion to amend and Second Amended Complaint. 

Since the Court has not yet screened the First Amended Complaint, the Court will grant 

Plaintiff’s motion to file the Second Amended Complaint. 

ORDER

Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:

1) Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint (ECF No. 13) is CONSTRUED as a motion to 

file a Second Amended Complaint and as a Second Amended Complaint; 

2) Plaintiff’s motion to file a Second Amended Complaint is GRANTED, and the Court 

CONSTRUES Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint (ECF No. 13) as a Second Amended 

Complaint. The Second Amended Complaint will be screened in due course.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 20, 2015 /s/ Dennis L. Beck 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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