Knight
(PC) Venson v. Knight
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CLIFFORD A. VENSON, No. 1:19-cv-01400-DAD-SKO (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS
J. KNIGHT, (Doc. No. 14) Defendant.
16 Plaintiff Clifford A. Venson is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. On April 21, 2020, the assigned magistrate judge ordered plaintiff to show cause why this action should not be dismissed as duplicative of claims in Venson v. Jackson, et al., No. 3:18-cv- 2278-BAS-BLM, a case plaintiff is litigating in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. (Doc. No. 11.) On May 5, 2020, plaintiff filed a response to the order to show cause, in which he did not deny that this case is duplicative but rather stated that he “filed duplicate claims in two different…