(PC) Helm v. Madera County

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JACOB CURTIS ALLEN HELM, Case No.: 1:22-cv-00423 JLT SKO (PC) Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

v. TO AMEND COMPLAINT WITHOUT

PREJUDICE

MADERA COUNTY, et al., (Doc. 11) Defendants.

16 Plaintiff Jacob Curtis Allen Helm, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, initiated this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 as a county jail inmate. Plaintiff is presently confined at Atascadero State Hospital. On June 23, 2022, Plaintiff filed a document titled “Motion: Request Ammending [sic] defendants.” (Doc. 11.) Plaintiff seeks to amend the named defendants in the complaint “from ‘Madera County, et al.,’ to simply ‘Madera County, California.’” (Id. at 1.) Plaintiff makes the request because he feels it “is in the best interests of the Courts for a swift, just, and inexpensive determination in this case” and “to ease the burden of the Courts.” (Id.) Plaintiff states he understands his request “will be the simplest…