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Parties Involved:
D. Dacanay
Defendant
T. Goughnour
Defendant
Joaquin Loaiza
Plaintiff
Jeanne Woodford
Defendant

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOAQUIN LOAIZA, 

Plaintiff,

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JEANNE WOODFORD, Warden, et al,

Defendants. 

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No. C 05-3366 JSW (PR)

ORDER REGARDING

SERVICE ON DEFENDANT

GOUGHNOUR

(Docket no. 5)

In an order dated January 10, 2006, the Court directed the United States Marshal to

serve Plaintiff’s civil rights complaint on Defendant Goughnour. Defendants Woodford

and Dacanay have appeared and a dispositive motion was filed on May 12, 2006. On

February 2, 2006, the U. S. Marshal informed the Court that it had been unable to effect

service on Defendant Goughnour, as they had been informed by San Quentin State Prison

that he had retired from state service.

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 order the U. S. Marshal to serve process on a defendant when the

plaintiff is indigent, it is the plaintiff's responsibility to provide a name and address for

each defendant to be served. Both the Court and the California Department of

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Corrections recognize, however, that prisoners proceeding pro se will often be unable to

obtain forwarding addresses for prison employees. Accordingly, a system has been

established by which the California Department of Corrections will provide to the Court,

under seal, a forwarding address for the defendant if the Department is in possession of

such. Therefore, in accord with this system, the Court's docket clerk shall mail an address

inquiry letter to: Staff Attorney, Legal Affairs Division, California Department of

Corrections, 1515 K Street, Sacramento, CA 95815. The letter shall ask for a

forwarding address for Defendant Goughnour to be provided to the Court under seal so

that the Court can then order the U. S. Marshal to attempt to serve the complaint on

Defendant Goughnour.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: May 18, 2006 JEFFREY S. WHITE

United States District Judge

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