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Parties Involved:
S. Evans
Defendant
Alfonzo Pickens
Plaintiff

Document Text:

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

ALFONZO PICKENS,

Plaintiff, 

 v.

S. EVANS, Warden, 

Defendant. /

No. C 07-6306 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

In this civil rights case plaintiff contends that he should be released because of

unconstitutional conditions created by overcrowding. This issue, including the possibility of a

prisoner release order, is currently being considered by a three-judge court in the class action

Plata v. Schwarzenegger, No. C 01-1351 TEH. 

Individual suits for injunctive and equitable relief from alleged unconstitutional prison

conditions cannot be brought where there plaintiff is a member of the class in a pending class

action suit involving the same subject matter. McNeil v. Guthrie, 945 F.2d 1163, 1165 (10th

Cir. 1991); Gillespie v. Crawford, 858 F.2d 1101, 1103 (5th Cir. 1988) (en banc). "Individual

members of the class and other prisoners may assert any equitable or declaratory claims they

have, but they must do so by urging further actions through the class representative and

attorney, including contempt proceedings, or by intervention in the class action." Id.

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1 Counsel for the plaintiff class in Plata is: Donald H. Specter, Prison Law Office,

General Delivery, San Quentin, CA 94964. 

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For the reasons set out above, this case is DISMISSED. The clerk shall close the file.1

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 7 , 2008. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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