Woodward

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES BROWN, Case No. 1:19-cv-00626-DAD-SKO (PC)

Plaintiff,

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO

v. DISMISS ACTION FOR A FAILURE TO

PROSECUTE

D. WOODWARD, et al., 14-DAY DEADLINE Defendants.

16 Plaintiff James Brown is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I. RELEVANT BACKGROUND On January 7, 2022, Defendants filed a motion for summary judgment on the grounds that Plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies prior to filing suit. (Doc. 42.) Pursuant to Local Rule 230(l), Plaintiff had 21 days to file an opposition or a statement of non-opposition to the motion, and failed to do so.1 A docket entry dated March 3, 2022, reveals mail sent to Plaintiff at his address on file with this Court—Kern Valley State Prison, P.O. Box 5101, Delano CA 93216—was returned by

1 Following the filing of Defendants’ motion for…