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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:1651 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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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

TERRY RAY HAWES,

Petitioner, 

 v.

WILLIAM MUNIZ, 

Respondent. /

No. C 14-5576 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL;

GRANTING LEAVE TO PROCEED

IN FORMA PAUPERIS

 

Petitioner, a California prisoner, filed this pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus

pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254. He claims that his constitutional rights are being violated because

he is being required to take psychiatric medication against his will. Challenges to conditions of

confinement should be brought in a civil rights complaint, not in a petition for a writ of habeas

corpus. See Ramirez v. Galaza, 334 F.3d 850, 859 (9th Cir. 2003); Badea v. Cox, 931 F.2d 573,

574 (9th Cir. 1991). Accordingly this case is DISMISSED without prejudice to petitioner filing a

new case in which he brings his claims about the conditions of confinement in a civil rights

complaint. Petitioner is GRANTED leave to proceed in forma pauperis. No certificate of

appealability is warranted in this case because a reasonable jurist would not find the dismissal

of this petition debatable or wrong. Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 484 (2000). 

The clerk shall enter judgment and close the file. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: January 29 , 2015. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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