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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

TERRY LEWIS, 1:19-cv-01094-LJO-GSA-PC

Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS,

RECOMMENDING THAT THIS CASE

vs. BE DISMISSED AS DUPLICATIVE OF CASE 1:19-cv-00840-BAM-PC M.D. BITTER, et al.,

OBJECTIONS, IF ANY, DUE WITHIN

Defendants. FOURTEEN (14) DAYS

18 I. BACKGROUND Terry Lewis (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis with this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff filed the Complaint commencing this action on August 12, 2019. (ECF No. 1.) On September 16, 2019, Plaintiff lodged the First Amended Complaint. (ECF No. 6.) The Court finds that this case is duplicative of another pending case filed by Plaintiff on May 3, 2019, and therefore recommends that this case be dismissed. II. DUPLICATIVE CASES “District courts retain broad discretion to control their dockets and ‘[i]n the exercise of that power they may impose…