(PC) Pablo M. Chavez v. Kings County Jail

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

PABLO MENDOZA CHAVEZ, Case No. 1:20-cv-00518-JDP

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THIS

v. CASE SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED AS

DUPLICATIVE OF CASE NUMBERS 1:20-

KINGS COUNTY JAIL, et al.,

CV-00471-SKO AND 1:20-CV-00369-EPG

Defendants.

THIRTY-DAY DEADLINE

14 Plaintiff Pablo Chavez is a pretrial detainee proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff alleges that he is receiving inadequate medical care for his back injury. See ECF No. 1. In two recently filed actions in this district—case numbers 1:20-CV-00471-SKO and 1:20-CV-00369-EPG—plaintiff also alleges similar constitutional violations related to his back injury and pain. But a plaintiff has “no right to maintain two separate actions involving the same subject matter at the same time in the same court and against the same defendant.” Walton v. Eaton Corp., 563 F.2d 66, 70 (3d Cir. 1977). To see whether an action is duplicative, we “examine whether the…