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Parties Involved:
William Cecil Thornton
Plaintiff

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

San Francisco Division

In Re.

WILLIAM CECIL THORNTON,

Plaintiff.

Case No. 16-cv-02723-LB 

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

[Re: ECF No. 1 ]

This action was opened on May 19, 2016, when the court received from William Cecil 

Thornton a copy of documents from his health-care appeal at the Valley State Prison in 

Chowchilla, California, where he is incarcerated. On that date, the court notified Mr. Thornton in 

writing that his action was deficient in that he had not attached a complaint and had not filed an in 

forma pauperis application. The court further notified him that this action would be dismissed if 

he did not submit a complaint and in forma pauperis application within 28 days. Mr. Thornton 

then filed a consent to proceed before a magistrate judge (ECF No. 51

) and an in forma pauperis

application (ECF No. 6), but did not file a complaint. This action is DISMISSED without 

prejudice because Mr. Thornton failed to file a complaint or other pleading showing the court has 

 1 Record citations refer to material in the Electronic Case File (ECF”); pinpoint citations are to the 

ECF-generated page numbers at the top of documents.

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jurisdiction over this action. The clerk shall close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 5, 2016

______________________________________

LAUREL BEELER

United States Magistrate Judge

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

THORNTON,

Plaintiff,

v.

,

Defendant.

Case No. 16-cv-02723-LB 

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am an employee in the Office of the Clerk, U.S. 

District Court, Northern District of California.

That on August 5, 2016, I SERVED a true and correct copy(ies) of the attached, by placing 

said copy(ies) in a postage paid envelope addressed to the person(s) hereinafter listed, by 

depositing said envelope in the U.S. Mail, or by placing said copy(ies) into an inter-office delivery 

receptacle located in the Clerk's office.

William Cecil Thornton ID: V64547

Valley State Prison

P.O. Box 92

Chowchilla, CA 93610-0099 

Dated: August 5, 2016

Susan Y. Soong

Clerk, United States District Court

By:________________________

Ada Means, Deputy Clerk to the 

Honorable LAUREL BEELER

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