Porter

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Nakia V. Porter, et al., No. 2:21-cv-01473-KJM-JDP Plaintiffs, ORDER v. County of Solano, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 The parties have filed a stipulation and proposed order to clarify the third amended complaint and dismiss certain claims. ECF No. 139. In portions of that filing, the parties agree to 19 the dismissal of some claims by some plaintiffs against some defendants. See, e.g., id. at 4 (“The Tenth Claim is hereby dismissed by Ms. Porter with prejudice only as against individual Defendants Stockton, Carter, and Hamilton.”). The Ninth Circuit has held that “withdrawals of 22 individual claims against a given defendant are governed by [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15], which addresses amendments to pleadings.” Hells Canyon Preservation Council v. U.S. Forest 24 Service, 403 F.3d 683, 687 (9th Cir. 2005). That rule “is the appropriate mechanism where a 25 plaintiff desires to…