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Parties Involved:
Judith Scrase
Plaintiff
John Vaughn
Defendant

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

JUDITH SCRASE,

Plaintiff, 

 v.

JOHN VAUGHN,

Defendant. /

No. C 10-2191 WHA (PR) 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL;

GRANTING LEAVE TO PROCEED

IN FORMA PAUPERIS

(Docket No. 8)

This civil rights complaint was filed under 42 U.S.C. 1983 by a plaintiff proceeding pro

se. She has also applied for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. 

Plaintiff alleges that defendant, a public defender, violated her constitutional rights

while representing her in state court criminal proceedings. Plaintiff has raised these same

allegations in a previous in forma pauperis complaint, however. See Scrase v. Vaughn, No. C

10-2191 WHA (PR). An in forma pauperis complaint repeating the same factual allegations

asserted in an earlier case, as here, even if now filed against new defendants, is therefore subject

to dismissal as duplicative. Bailey v. Johnson, 846 F.2d 1019, 1021 (5th Cir. 1988); see also 

Cato v. United States, 70 F.3d 1103, 1105 n.2 (9th Cir. 1995) (dismissing duplicative complaint

under 28 U.S.C. 1915(e)). Plaintiff's claims are accordingly DISMISSED as duplicative of the

claims raised in her earlier case. 

Good cause appearing, the application to proceed in forma pauperis (docket number 8)

is GRANTED. 

//

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United States District Court

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The order setting an initial case management conference and ADR deadlines is

VACATED. The clerk shall enter judgment and close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: June 25 , 2010. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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