(PC) Parker v. N. West

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MELVIN PARKER, No. 2:22-cv-2015 CSK P Plaintiff, v. ORDER N.WEST, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis. On December 9, 2024, nonparty Durrell Puckett filed a document styled “Summary Judgment and Settlement Agreed Statement.” (ECF No. 62.) Mr. Puckett signed the filing in at least two places. (Id. at 2, 3.) Mr. Puckett is not a party to this action and cannot file documents on behalf of fellow inmates. In addition, Mr. Puckett cannot represent a fellow prisoner. See Johns v. County of San Diego, 114 F.3d 874, 876 (9th Cir. 1997) (“While a non-attorney may appear pro se on his own behalf, he has no authority to appear as an attorney for others than himself”) (internal quotations and citation omitted); see also Jorss v. Schwarzenegger, 168 F. App’x 825, 826 (9th Cir. 2006) (finding the district court properly dismissed the complaint because the pro se prisoner…