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Parties Involved:
Robin Gillen Starr
Plaintiff
United States of America
Defendant

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

ROBIN GILLEN STARR, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Defendants. 

No. 2:17-cv-0206 AC P 

ORDER 

 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with the instant action. Based on the filings 

submitted, which are largely unintelligible, it appears that plaintiff is attempting to bring both a 

civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant 

to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. ECF Nos. 1, 4, 5, 6. Plaintiff is advised that he cannot pursue relief under § 

1983 and § 2254 in the same action. The complaint will be dismissed with leave to amend and 

plaintiff will be sent both a form for § 1983 complaints and a form for § 2254 habeas petitions. 

Plaintiff must choose how he wants to go forward in this case. If plaintiff is attempting to bring 

claims about the conditions of his confinement, they must be brought under § 1983. If he is 

trying to bring claims challenging his conviction or sentence, they must be brought under § 2254. 

If he is trying to bring both conditions of confinement and habeas claims, he must decide whether 

he wants to continue with his conditions of confinement claims or his habeas claims in this case. 

If he wants to, plaintiff can bring the other claims in a separate action. 

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 Plaintiff has also filed a request for leave to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 

U.S.C. § 1915. ECF No. 5. However, his application for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is 

not on the form used by this district and therefore does not have all of the required information. 

The request will be denied and plaintiff will have an opportunity to submit a new request to 

proceed in forma pauperis. 

Finally, the court recently served documents on plaintiff’s address of record that were 

returned by the postal service with the notation that delivery had been refused. Plaintiff is 

informed that all court orders will be served on him at his address of record and that acceptance 

of those orders will be necessary to prosecution of the instant action. Plaintiff is further informed 

that further refusal to accept delivery of court orders may result in a recommendation that this 

action be dismissed. See L.R. 110. 

 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERD that: 

 1. The complaint is dismissed with leave to amend. 

 2. Within thirty days from the date of service of this order, plaintiff may file either an 

amended complaint containing only claims related to his conditions of confinement or an 

amended petition containing only claims challenging his conviction or sentence. The amended 

complaint or petition must bear the docket number assigned this case. Plaintiff must file an 

original and two copies of the amended complaint or petition. Failure to file an amended 

complaint or petition will result in a recommendation that this action be dismissed without 

prejudice. 

 3. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send plaintiff copies of the prisoner complaint 

form and form for application for writ of habeas corpus used in this district. 

4. Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis (ECF No. 5) is denied without 

prejudice. 

 5. Plaintiff shall submit, within thirty days from service of this order, a completed 

application to proceed in forma pauperis. Plaintiff’s failure to comply with this order will result 

in a recommendation that this action be dismissed without prejudice. 

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6. The Clerk of the Court is directed to send plaintiff a new Application to Proceed In 

Forma Pauperis By a Prisoner. 

 7. The Clerk of the Court is directed to re-serve a copy of the documents at ECF No. 9, 

together with a copy of this order, on plaintiff at his current address. 

 8. Continued refusal of documents from the court will result in a recommendation that 

this action be dismissed without prejudice. 

DATED: March 13, 2017 

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