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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 SEDRIC EUGENE JOHNSON, No. 1:23-cv-00361 KES GSA (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

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v. Doc. 12 BRIAN CATES, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a former state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. On June 12, 2023, plaintiff filed a change of address with the court in Johnson v. Cates, No. 1:23-cv-00437-KES-GSA, a duplicative action to the instant action. The Clerk of Court, pursuant to the office’s procedure, also updated plaintiff’s address in the instant matter. Doc. 8. On March 22, 2024, an order served on plaintiff in Case No. 1:23-cv-0437 was returned to the Court as “Undeliverable, Attempted, Not Known, Unable to Forward.” Therefore, on March 25, 2024, the assigned magistrate judge issued an order in the present action…