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Parties Involved:
Ramundie O. Brown
Plaintiff
Kwan
Defendant

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RAMUNDIE O. BROWN,

Plaintiff,

v.

KWAN,

Defendant.

Case No. 18-cv-03428-SI 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

Re: Dkt. No. 16

On September 13, 2018, the court determined that the pro se prisoner’s civil rights complaint 

in this action failed to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Docket No. 13. The court 

reviewed the complaint, discussed the several deficiencies in the complaint, and granted plaintiff 

leave to file an amended complaint. Docket No. 13. The court later granted plaintiff’s request for 

an extension of the deadline for the amended complaint. Docket No. 17. Plaintiff filed an amended 

complaint. Docket No. 16. 

Plaintiff’s amended complaint fails to correct the deficiencies identified in the order of 

dismissal with leave to amend and fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. The 

amended complaint, like the original complaint, alleges that recreational therapist Kwan ousted 

plaintiff from a recreational group. But that alone does not suggest a constitutional violation. In 

the order of dismissal with leave to amend, the court explained that the original complaint did not 

state a claim for an equal protection violation “because no facts are alleged to suggest that Kwan 

acted with a discriminatory purpose and that Kwan’s actions had a discriminatory effect.” Docket 

No. 13 at 2-3. The amended complaint does not provide that information. The court also explained 

in the order of dismissal with leave to amend that a due process claim was not adequately pled 

because the original complaint did not “allege facts showing that Brown’s removal from the group 

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deprived him of a liberty interest of real substance and fail[ed] to identify the procedural protections 

not provided before his removal from the group.” Id. at 3. The amended complaint does not provide 

that information. The amended complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. 

Further leave to amend will not be granted because the court already has explained what plaintiff 

needed to allege to state a claim and he was unable or unwilling to make sufficient allegations.

For the foregoing reasons, and the reasons stated in the order of dismissal with leave to 

amend, this action is DISMISSED for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. The 

clerk shall close the file

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 26, 2019

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SUSAN ILLSTON

United States District Judge

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