(PC) Vargas v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DOMINIC (AKA DIAMOND) VARGAS, Case No.: 1:20-cv-000083-JLT-CDB (PC) 12 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR LEAVE

TO FILE FOURTH AMENDED

13 v. COMPLAINT

14 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF (Doc. 87)

CORRECTIONS AND

15 REHABILITATION, et al.,

16 Defendants. 17 18 Plaintiff Dominic Vargas is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights 19 action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 20 I. BACKGROUND 21 In its amended order issued October 18, 2024, the Court denied Plaintiff leave to file a 22 fourth amended complaint. (Doc. 79.) Specifically, the Court found: “updates and clarifications” 23 regarding “ongoing violations” were unnecessary; that the proposed fourth amended complaint 24 improperly sought to name defendants in their individual and official capacities; improperly 25 sought to add former public officers as defendants; improperly sought to order non-parties to 26 “perform procedures ‘in a more timely fashion” and was not narrowly drawn. (Id.…