Moffett

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSHUA BLAND, No. 1:19-cv-01750-JLT-SKO (PC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

v. RECOMMENDATIONS AND DENYING

PLAINTIFF’S MOTIONS FOR WRIT

D. MOFFETT, et al., (Docs. 52, 55, 56) Defendants.

16 Joshua Bland is a state prisoner and seeks to hold correctional officers liable for violating his civil rights— for an alleged failure to protect him from the attack of several other inmates— under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. Plaintiff filed an “original writ for common law remedy” on December 6, 2021 (Doc. 52) and “writ for adequate remedy at law” March 2, 2022 (Doc. 55). The assigned magistrate judge determined these were “indecipherable filings,” and based upon the sovereign citizen ideology rejected by the courts. (Doc. 56 at 3-4, citing, e.g., U.S. v. Studley, 783 F.2d 934, 937 n.3 (9th Cir. 1986); Mackey v.…