Darnell
(PC) Colbourn v. Darnell
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ORRIN TYLER COLBOURN, No. 2:20-cv-1937 CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER JESS DARNELL, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a Butte County Jail prisoner proceeding pro se and seeking relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On October 13, 2020, the court screened plaintiff’s complaint as the court is required to do under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a). Plaintiff’s complaint was dismissed with leave to amend. In response to the court’s order, plaintiff filed three separate amended complaints. As plaintiff was informed in the October 13, 2020 order, Local Rule 220 requires that an amended complaint be complete in itself without reference to any other pleadings. This is because, as a general rule, an amended complaint supersedes a previous one. See Loux v. Rhay, 375 F.2d 55, 57 (9th Cir. 1967). Good cause appearing, plaintiff’s amended, second amended and third amended complaints will be dismissed with leave to file a fourth…