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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

MORRIS LEE MESTER,

Plaintiff,

v.

DR. M. KIM, et al.,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 1:04-cv-06580-LJO-SMS PC

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTIONS

FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIVE RELIEF,

AND NOTIFYING PLAINTIFF THAT ANY

FURTHER MOTIONS SEEKING

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

PLAINTIFF IS NOT LEGALLY ENTITLED TO

WILL BE STRICKEN FROM THE RECORD 

(Docs. 114 and 117)

Plaintiff Morris Lee Mester (“plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma

pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action is proceeding on

plaintiff’s complaint filed November 12, 2004, against defendants Kim, Sacks, Neubarth, Nicholes,

Robinson, Plaza, and Malfi (“defendants”) on plaintiff’s claim that they violated the Eighth

Amendment by acting with deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. On March 28, 2007,

and April 11, 2007, plaintiff filed motions seeking medical treatment and a transfer.

The claims in this action accrued between June 23, 2003 and March 4, 2004, and relate to

plaintiff’s hernia and the delay of and/or interference with hernia surgery. The alleged failure to

provide plaintiff with medical treatment for his current medical issues and the alleged retaliatory

actions currently occurring are not being litigated in this action. Because the events plaintiff is

complaining of in his motions are not being litigated in this action, the Court has no jurisdiction to

issue an order aimed at remedying those events. City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 102,

103 S.Ct. 1660, 1665 (1983); Valley Forge Christian Coll. v. Ams. United for Separation of Church

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and State, Inc., 454 U.S. 464, 471, 102 S.Ct. 752, 757-58 (1982); Jones v. City of Los Angeles, 444

F.3d 1118, 1126 (9th Cir. 2006); Zepeda v. United States Immigration Service, 753 F.2d 719, 727

(9th Cir. 1985). 

Plaintiff has previously been notified of the legal showing that must be made to obtain

preliminary injunctive relief, plaintiff has previously been notified that the Court does not have

jurisdiction to issue an orders aimed at remedying his current conditions of confinement, and

plaintiff has previously been placed on notice that his persistence in seeking relief he is not entitled

to is an abuse of the judicial process. (Docs. 97, 113.) Any further motions seeking preliminary

injunctive relief that plaintiff is not legally entitled to in this action will be stricken from the record.

Accordingly, plaintiff’s motions for preliminary injunctive relief, filed March 28, 2007, and

April 11, 2007, are HEREBY DENIED, with prejudice, and any further motions seeking preliminary

injunctive relief that plaintiff is not legally entitled to in this action will be STRICKEN from the

record.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 8, 2007 /s/ Lawrence J. O'Neill 

b9ed48 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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