Samm

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 STERLING SAMM, Case No. 25-cv-02062-TLT

8 Petitioner,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v. 9

10 SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, et al., 11 Respondents.

12 13 Petitioner is a state prisoner at the California Health Care Facility proceeding without 14 counsel in this action seeking a “writ of mandate” pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, 15 which authorizes federal courts to “issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their 16 respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a). 17 He has been granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis. 18 Petitioner asks this Court to order the Alameda County Superior Court to set aside its 19 denial of petitioner’s motion for entry of default judgment in his case in that court, number 20 RG20078772, Samm v. People of the State of California. This petition arises out of the same state- 21 court proceeding as petitioner’s prior case in this Court, No. 22-cv-02434, in which he sought an 22 order requiring the…