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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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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

 DEXTER E . DALE, 

Plaintiff,

 v.

L. FERNANDEZ AND L.

LOUGH., 

Defendants. _____________________________

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No. C 05-1842 JSW (PR)

ORDER REGARDING SERVICE OF

DEFENDANT LOUGH

Plaintiff, a prisoner of the State of California, currently incarcerated at the

Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California, filed this pro se civil rights action

pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, complaining of deliberate indifference to his serious 

medical needs. On February 27, 2007, the Court denied summary judgment as to

Defendant Fernandez and ordered the Clerk to request a forwarding address for

Defendant Nurse L. Lough from the Legal Affairs Department of the California

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) so that the Court could order a

further attempt at service by the United States Marshal (“USM”) (docket no. 19). 

Plaintiff had previously provided the Court with an address for Defendant Lough at the

Correctional Training Facility (“CTF”) in Soledad, California, but after the USM

attempted to serve Lough, Plaintiff and the Court were informed that Defendant Lough

no longer worked at that facility.

In response to this recent request, the Legal Affairs Department of CDCR has

informed the Court that CTF does not have any record of which of the more than forty

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nursing registries used by that prison Defendant Lough came from. As a result, they

cannot provide a forwarding address for her because they do not have one. See, docket

no. 20.

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m) contemplates that service of process

normally will be accomplished within four months of the filing of the complaint. 

Although the Court can have the USM serve process on a named defendant, it is the

plaintiff's responsibility to provide a current address for each defendant to be served. 

Plaintiff therefore must provide a current address for Defendant Lough so that Lough can

be served with process. Plaintiff must provide to the Court no later sixty days from the

date of this order a service address for Defendant Lough. If Plaintiff does not provide an

address for Lough, or the Marshal is unable to serve process on Lough using any further

information Plaintiff does provide, Lough will be will be dismissed without prejudice

from this action. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m); Walker v. Sumner, 14 F.3d 1415, 1422 (9th

Cir. 1994).

 IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: May 3, 2007

 

JEFFREY S. WHITE

United States District Judge

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