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I. BACKGROUND

A. The Operative Complaint Plaintiff’s operative first amended complaint, which runs to 527 pages, alleges 34 causes of action—repeating many of the same factual allegations throughout.1 The complaint alleges plaintiff’s thoughts and actions are subject to manipulation by means of “directed energy technologies/weapons” and defendants including the Judicial Council and the State Bar are either responsible for or “deliberately indifferent” to this conduct.

1 The original complaint is not in the appellate record, but plaintiff indicates it was prepared by counsel and focused on claims relating to a fire at a hotel in which he was living. Plaintiff states he decided to represent himself because he could not find an attorney “who could and would file the lawsuit(s) which present the totality of the circumstances,” including the alleged use of directed energy weapons. 2 The Judicial Council and the State Bar are named as defendants in the first cause of action for conspiracy to interfere

2 Plaintiff alleges he has been subject to such manipulation since at least 2006, but the manipulation was “revealed” to him “during the month of December 2016 through the…