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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MANUEL RODRIGUEZ, Case No. 1:21-cv-00572-JLT-EPG (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER REGARDING STIPULATION TO

SUBSTITUTE MARTHA SPAETH M.D. FOR

v. DEFENDANT NGOZI IGBINOSA, M.D. HARPREET SINGH, et al., (ECF No. 41) Defendants. 16 Before the Court is the parties’ stipulation requesting that the name Martha Spaeth, M.D. be substituted wherever the name Ngozi Igbinosa, M.D. appears in the First Amended Complaint. (ECF No. 41.) An amended complaint supersedes the original complaint and must be complete in itself without reference to the prior or superseded pleading. Lacey v. Maricopa County, 693 F.3d. 896, 907 n.1 (9th Cir. 2012) (en banc); E.D. Cal. L.R. 220. Therefore, the Court will construe the parties’ stipulation as an agreement to amend the complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a)(2) and will direct Plaintiff to file a Second Amended Complaint that is complete in itself without reference to the…