Ronnie Lacy v. State of California

MEMORANDUM

Ronnie Sterling Lacy, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing without prejudice his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging various constitutional violations. We have jurisdiction under 28 TJ.S.C. § 1291. We review for an abuse of discretion a dismissal for failure to comply with the district court’s order to file an amended complaint. Yourish v. Cal. Amplifier, 191 F.3d 983 , 989 (9th Cir. 1999). We affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Lacy’s action without prejudice after the magistrate judge provided notice of the inadequacies of Lacy’s complaint, and warned Lacy that failure to file an amended complaint would result in a recommendation of dismissal. See id. at 989-90 (‘We will not disturb the trial court’s dismissal without a definite and firm conviction that the court below committed a clear error of judgment in the conclusion it reached upon a weighing of the relevant factors.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).

Moreover, the district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Lacy’s action on the basis that the instant action is duplicative of an earlier-filed…