(PC) Brookshire v. Sacramento County Main Jail

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LARRY JAMES BROOKSHIRE, Case No. 2:23-cv-2000-DC-JDP (P) Plaintiff, v. ORDER SACRAMENTO COUNTY MAIN JAIL, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiff, an inmate proceeding without counsel, has brought this action against correctional officers Carver and Montano. Plaintiff has also commenced another action in this district against the same defendants over the same dispute. See Brookshire v. Sacramento County Sheriff’s Dep’t, No. 2:23-cv-2001-DJC-CSK; see also ECF No. 19 (defendants’ notice of related cases). These actions appear to be duplicative. “Plaintiffs generally have ‘no right to maintain two separate actions involving the same subject matter at the same time in the same court and against the same defendant.’” Adams v. Cal. Dep’t of Health Servs., 487 F.3d 684, 688 (9th Cir. 2007), overruled on other grounds by Taylor v. Sturgell, 553 U.S. 880, 904 (2008) (quoting Walton v. Eaton Corp., 563 F.2d 66, 70 (3d Cir. 1977) (en banc)). …