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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JARMAAL SMITH, Case No. 1:19-cv-00437-LJO-JDP Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO AMEND v. ECF No. 10 E. PARKS, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Before the court is plaintiff’s motion to amend his complaint. ECF No. 10. As this is plaintiff’s first motion and I grant leave to amend once as a matter of course, I grant plaintiff’s motion. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(1); ECF No. 10. Plaintiff will have thirty days to submit a first amended complaint. The amended complaint will supersede the original complaint, Lacey v. Maricopa County, 693 F. 3d 896, 907 n.1 (9th Cir. 2012) (en banc), and the amended complaint must be complete on its face without reference to the prior, superseded pleading, see E.D. Cal. Local Rule 220. Plaintiff may not change the nature of this suit by adding new, unrelated claims or…