Kurgan

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BOBBY LEE COLLINS, No. 2:23-cv-1600 KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER KURGAN, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis. He seeks relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On September 1, 2023, plaintiff’s complaint was dismissed with leave to amend. Plaintiff subsequently filed a document purporting to correct errors or omissions in his complaint and another document containing “amendments” to his claims as to defendants Kurgan, Jones and Gorman. (ECF Nos. 14 & 15.) However, as plaintiff was advised in the September 1, 2023 order, Local Rule 220 requires that an amended complaint be complete in itself without reference to any prior pleading. (ECF No. 10 at 6.) This requirement exists because, as a general rule, an amended complaint supersedes the original complaint. See Ramirez v. County of San Bernardino, 806 F.3d 1002, 1008 (9th Cir. 2015) (“an ‘amended complaint…