Jones

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ERIC BELL, SR., No. 2:20-cv-00793-WBS-CKD Plaintiff, v. ORDER GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a county inmate proceeding pro se in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On May 15, 2020 the court directed plaintiff to notify the court within 21 days whether he wanted to proceed on the original complaint as screened by the court or whether he wanted the court to screen his first amended complaint. Rather than return the attached Notice of Election, plaintiff filed a “Notice of Clarification” indicating that he was attempting to add to the allegations of the original complaint by filing a first amended complaint. ECF No. 13 at 2. However, on the same day, plaintiff also returned the service documents for defendant Scott Jones along with two copies of the original complaint. ECF No. 15. The court once again instructs plaintiff that the court cannot refer to a prior pleading…