Hotton
Hotton v. L & S Land Co.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MARK HOTTON, Case No. 19-cv-05500-SI
Plaintiff,
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE.
v. CONTEMPLATED DISMISSAL
L & S LAND CO., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 1 Defendants.
12 Mark Hotton, an inmate currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution – Fort Dix in New Jersey, filed this pro se civil action and applied to proceed in forma pauperis. The complaint is now before the court for review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. 16 BACKGROUND The complaint is dated October 9, 2018, and was sent to the court in an envelope in which there also was a certificate of service and enclosure letter dated August 12, 2019. The complaint was stamped filed on August 30, 2019. Under the prisoner mailbox rule, the complaint is deemed filed as of the date a pro se prisoner gives a document to prison officials to mail to the court. Douglas v. Noelle, 567 F.3d 1103, 1108-09 (9th Cir. 2009). The court…