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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ROLAND THOMAS KOCH, Case No. 1:19-cv-01082-JDP

Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

THAT THIS CASE BE DISMISSED AS

v. DUPLICATIVE OF CASE 1:18-cv-01693-DAD-

SAB

BRANDON PRICE,

OBJECTIONS DUE IN FOURTEEN DAYS

Defendant.

ORDER ASSIGNING THE CASE TO A

DISTRICT JUDGE

18 Plaintiff Roland Thomas Koch is a civil detainee proceeding without counsel and without prepayment of fees in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff’s complaint, ECF No. 1, is before the court for screening under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e). Plaintiff alleges that the conditions of his confinement and the confiscation of his personal property at Coalinga State Hospital violate his federal rights. Because this complaint is duplicative of a previously filed action, I order that the clerk’s office assign this case to a district judge and I recommend that the case be dismissed. “Plaintiffs…