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Parties Involved:
Robert Ayers
Respondent
Jeff S. Harnden
Petitioner

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

JEFF S. HARNDEN,

Petitioner,

 v.

ROBERT AYERS, 

Respondent.

/

No. C 15-5994 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

(Docket No. 2, 5)

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

corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254. In the petition he challenges a pretrial order by Magistrate

Judge Larry B. Nord in a civil rights case, No. C. 95-3162 LBN (N.D. Cal., Nov. 21, 2001), that

was closed in 2002 pursuant to a settlement agreement. The pretrial order cannot be challenged

in a federal petition for writ of habeas corpus. 

His application to proceed in forma pauperis (dkt. 2, 5) is GRANTED.

The clerk shall enter judgment and close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 1 , 2016. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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