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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

ANDREW RAMIREZ,

Plaintiff,

v.

JEANNE WOODFORD, et al.,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 1:05-cv-01494-OWW-LJO PC

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

SEEKING INJUNCTION AND/OR A

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER 

(Doc. 12)

Plaintiff Andrew Ramirez, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed this

civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on November 22, 2005. On July 31, 2006, the Court

dismissed this case with prejudice for failure to state a claim, a clerk’s judgment was entered in favor

of Defendants against plaintiff, and the case was closed. (Docs. 10 and 11.) Almost four years later,

on February 8, 2010, Plaintiff filed a document entitled “Motion for Order to Cause for a Injunction,

a Temporary Restraining Order,” (Doc. 12), which is hereby construed as a motion for injunctive

relief.

Federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction and in considering a request for preliminary

injunctive relief, the Court is bound by the requirement that as a preliminary matter, it have before

it an actual case or controversy. City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 102 (1983); Valley

Forge Christian Coll. v. Ams. United for Separation of Church and State, Inc., 454 U.S. 464, 471

(1982). If the Court does not have an actual case or controversy before it, it has no power to hear

the matter in question. Id. The case or controversy requirement cannot be met in light of the fact

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that this case has been dismissed with prejudice and closed. Because this case has been dismissed 1

with prejudice and closed, the case-or-controversy requirement is not met such that this action

provides no basis upon which to award Plaintiff injunctive relief.

Accordingly, Plaintiff’s motion for injunctive relief, filed February 8, 2010, is HEREBY

DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 2, 2010 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

b9ed48 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Further, even if there were some basis for this Court to maintain continuing jurisdiction 1

in this case, the issues that Plaintiff’s motion seeks to be remedied at High Desert State Prison in

Susanville, California bear no relation, jurisdictionally, to the past events at Ironwood State

Prison in Blythe, California which gave rise to this suit. Lyons, 461 U.S. at 102; 18 U.S.C. §

3626(a)(1)(A); also Summers v. Earth Island Inst., 129 S.Ct. 1142, 1148-49 (2009); Steel Co. v.

Citizens for a Better Env’t, 523 U.S. 83, 102-04, 118 S.Ct. 1003 (1998). 

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