Curtis Sawyer v. United States of America

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CURTIS SAWYER, Case No. 2:21-cv-5301-SB (SK) Plaintiff, v. ORDER DISMISSING ACTION

FOR LACK OF PROSECUTION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et

al.,

Defendant.

Plaintiff Curtis Sawyer sues the United States, the federal Bureau of Prisons, and several federal correctional officials for alleged Eighth Amendment violations in the food and laundry services he received while temporarily housed at the Federal Correctional Institute in Victorville, California. (ECF 1, 3). Because his complaint has several pleading deficiencies, Plaintiff was ordered to show cause under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A why the complaint should not be dismissed on those grounds. (ECF 6). That order also warned Plaintiff that failure to respond may lead to involuntary dismissal of this action for lack of prosecution. (Id. at 3). Yet, as of this order, Plaintiff has filed nothing in response to the order to show cause. The Court must therefore dismiss the action for Plaintiff’s failure to prosecute. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(b); L.R. 41-1; L.R. 7-12. The Court may dismiss a case for failure to prosecute after it has…