William Roberts v. Gavin Newsom

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 WILLIAM ROBERTS, Case No. 5:20-cv-01810-CJC (MAA)

12 Plaintiff, ORDER OF DISMISSAL

13 v. 14 GAVIN NEWSOM et al., 15 Defendants. 1 16 7

18 I. SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS 19 On June 15, 2020, Plaintiffs Narvis Nonnette, William Roberts, and Richard 20 Cooper filed a pro se putative class action lawsuit in this Court as case no. 5:20-cv- 21 01218-CJC-MAA, alleging violations of their civil rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 22 § 1983 (“Nonnette”). (Nonnette Compl., ECF No. 1.) On June 19, 2020, the Court 23 advised the Nonnette plaintiffs that a putative class action lawsuit cannot be brought 24 pro se, that multiple inmate pro se plaintiffs cannot bring a single lawsuit in this 25 Court, and that each plaintiff separately is required to pay the full filing fee or 26 submit an application to proceed in forma pauperis. (ECF No. 4.) The Court 27 ordered each plaintiff to advise whether he wanted to proceed with the Nonnette 28 lawsuit, dismiss his claims, or sever his claims into a separate prisoner civil rights…