Rooney
(HC) Rodriguez v. Rooney
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JESUS RODRIGUEZ, Case No. 2:22-cv-01898-JDP (HC) Petitioner, v. ORDER KEVIN ROONEY, Respondent. 16 On February 17, 2023, I screened petitioner’s petition for writ of habeas corpus and notified him that it failed to state a viable claim and failed to indicate which, if any, of his claims were exhausted in state court. ECF No. 6. I granted him thirty days to file an amended petition. Id. To date, petitioner has not filed an amended petition. To manage its docket effectively, the court imposes deadlines and requires litigants to meet those deadlines. The court may dismiss a case for petitioner’s failure to prosecute or failure to comply with its orders or local rules. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 41; Hells Canyon Pres. Council v. U.S. Forest Serv., 403 F.3d 683, 689 (9th Cir. 2005) (“[T]he consensus among our sister circuits, with which we agree, is that courts may dismiss under Rule 41(b) sua sponte, at least under certain…