(PC) Whitsitt v. San Joaquin County Mental Health

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ----oo0oo---- 11 WILLIAM J. WHITSITT, No. 2:22-cv-0356 WBS CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH, et al., 16 Defendants. 17 18 ----oo0oo---- After the court adopted the Magistrate Judge’s Findings and Recommendations and dismissed the case, plaintiff appealed. (See Docket Nos. 28, 32, 36.) The Ninth Circuit has now referred the matter back to this court “for the limited purpose of determining whether in forma pauperis status should continue for this appeal or whether the appeal is frivolous or taken in bad faith” under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a)(3) and Hooker v. American Airlines, 302 F.3d 1091, 1092 (9th Cir. 2002). (Docket No. 40.) The court continues to agree with the Magistrate nee ne IE I IERIE I ERIN IEE SIE EE OE EO

Judge’s recommendation in her Findings and Recommendations that the Fifth Amended complaint be dismissed …