Deandre Danny Jonte Barnes v. City of Los Angeles County and Sheriff Department

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DEANDRE DANNY JONTE CASE NO. 2:20-cv-9103-ODW (SK)

BARNES,

Plaintiff, ORDER DISMISSING ACTION

FOR LACK OF PROSECUTION

v.

CITY OF LOS ANGELES

COUNTY AND SHERIFF

DEPARTMENT, et al., Defendants.

Plaintiff is a pro se litigant who sought to proceed in forma pauperis with a prisoner civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 while he was imprisoned at the Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center in the fall of 2020. (ECF 1). In that complaint, he alleged that the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and three local prison officers had violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights based on their negligent handling of COVID-19 within the PJP Detention Center. (Id. at 2- 7). But the Court’s screening of the complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A revealed many pleading deficiencies, some of which Plaintiff could have addressed by filing (among other possible responses) an amended complaint. (ECF 4). Yet Plaintiff filed no amended complaint, much less an adequate response fully addressing all the identified pleading deficiencies. (ECF 7). At the same time, Plaintiff failed…