Mayberg
(PC) Vasquez v. Mayberg
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
GEORGE VASQUEZ, Case No. 1:10-cv-01973-DAD-JDP
Plaintiff,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
v.
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT
EDMUND G. BROWN, et al., COUNSEL Defendants. ECF No.
14 Plaintiff George Vasquez is a former civil detainee proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff challenges the conditions of his commitment. See ECF Nos. 11, 34. “A case might become moot if subsequent events made it absolutely clear that the allegedly wrongful behavior could not reasonably be expected to recur.” United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Exp. Ass’n, 393 U.S. 199, 203 (1968). Since plaintiff has been released, any allegedly wrongful conditions of confinement are no longer at issue. Thus, it appears that his release has mooted this lawsuit. See Vanke v. Block, 77 F. App’x 948, 949 (9th Cir. 2003); Kwasigroch v. FDC SEATAC, 7 F. App’x 590, 591 (9th Cir. 2001) (citing Mitchell v. Dupnik, 75 F.3d 517, 528 (9th Cir. 1996)). Therefore,…