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Parties Involved:
Butte County Jail
Defendant
Zachary Lloyd Kalso
Plaintiff

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ZACHARY LLOYD KALSO, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

BUTTE COUNTY JAIL, 

Defendant. 

No. 2:24-cv-00466 AC P 

ORDER 

Plaintiff is a county prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 

42 U.S.C. § 1983. It has come to the court’s attention that the claims in the instant complaint are 

identical to those in Kalso v. Butte County Jail, No. 2:24-cv-0404 CKD, which was opened by the 

Clerk of the Court on February 5, 2024.1 Plaintiff “has no right to maintain two separate actions 

involving the same subject matter at the same time in the same court and against the same 

defendant.” MHC Fin. Ltd. P’ship v. City of San Rafael, 714 F.3d 1118, 1133 (9th Cir. 2013). 

The complaint in this case will therefore be construed as an amended complaint in the earlier filed 

action. 

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 Both complaints allege that the Butte County Jail is violating plaintiff’s rights by serving 

expired food, price gouging, and using plastic food trays that expose him to cancerous materials. 

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 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 

1. The Clerk of Court is directed to file the complaint in this case as an amended 

complaint in Kalso v. Butte County Jail, No. 2:24-cv-0404 CKD; and

2. The Clerk of the Court is directed to close this case.

3. DATED: February 29, 2024. 

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