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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JOSHUA JASON DALKE, ) Case No.: 1:20-cv-00534-AWI-SAB (PC) ) Plaintiff, ) ) ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S REQUEST v. ) FOR DECLARATORY RELIEF

KING CLARK, et al., ) (ECF No. 110) )

Defendants. ) ) )

Plaintiff Joshua Jason Dalke is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s request for declaratory relief. It appears that Plaintiff seeks declaratory judgment pursuant to pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 57, which “governs the procedures for obtaining a declaratory judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 2201.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 57. Section 2201 provides for the “creation of a remedy” in actions for declaratory judgment involving cases “of actual controversy” within the court’s jurisdiction. 28 U.S.C. § 2201(a). That provision instructs that, “upon the filing of an appropriate pleading,…