Williams v. Clark County

MEMORANDUM **

Anthony Williams, a Nevada state prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging the conditions of his confinement in the Clark County Detention Center. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. *7 § 1291 . We review for abuse of discretion a district court’s dismissal for failure to comply with court orders and procedural rules. Bishop v. Lewis, 155 F.3d 1094, 1096 (9th Cir.1998); Ghazali v. Moran, 46 F.3d 52, 53 (9th Cir.1995). We affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by dismissing Williams’s action because he repeatedly failed to comply with court orders and the rules of procedure requiring him to serve defendants with all address changes and motions, and he failed to file a timely opposition to defendants’ motions to dismiss. See Fed. R.Civ.P. 41(b) (allowing dismissal of an action for “[f]ailure of the plaintiff to prosecute or to comply with these rules or any order of court”); Fed.R.Civ.P. 5 (requiring service of pleadings and other papers); D. Nev. Local Special R. 2-2 (requiring service of any address change and warning that “[fjailure to comply with this rule may result in dismissal of the…