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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 DAVID SAMPSON HUNTER, et al., No. 2:19-cv-2340 DB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER SCOTT JONES, et al., Defendants.

16 Plaintiffs, David Sampson Hunter and DeAndre Fowler, are county jail inmates 17 proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs have 18 presented several unrelated claims in this action. For the reasons set forth below, the court will 19 dismiss the complaint and direct each plaintiff to file an amended complaint. 20 The complaint filed in this action is brought and signed by both plaintiffs. (See ECF No. 21 1 at 6.) Plaintiff Hunter states that he is bringing this action “for his client,” plaintiff Fowler. (Id. 22 at 3.) As an initial matter, the plaintiffs are informed that Hunter cannot bring an action on behalf 23 of his fellow inmate because he is proceeding in pro se in this action. Pro se litigants have no 24 authority to represent anyone other than themselves; therefore, they lack the representative 25 capacity to…