Roberto Herrera v. Huu Nguyen

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Roberto Herrera appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs and retaliation. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review for an abuse of discretion the district court’s dismissal for failure to comply with a court order, Pagtalunan v. Galaza, 291 F.3d 639, 640 (9th Cir.2002), and we affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Herrera’s action without prejudice after Herrera failed to file a legible amended pleading in compli-anee with the local rules, despite being warned that failure to do so could result in dismissal. See E.D. Cal. R. 130(b) (documents filed with the court must be presented legibly); Pagtalunan, 291 F.3d at 640, 642-43 (discussing the five factors for determining whether to dismiss a case for failure to comply with a court order and noting that dismissal should not be disturbed absent “a definite and firm conviction” that the district court “committed a clear error of judgment” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).

Because we affirm the district court’s dismissal for…