Sanchez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOSEPH PETER SANCHEZ, Case No. 19-cv-03143-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v. Docket No. 1 V.A. OAKLAND REGIONAL OFFICE, et al., 11 Defendants. 12 13 Joseph Peter Sanchez, an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison, filed this action seeking a writ of mandamus against the Oakland Veterans’ Affairs regional office. Mr. Sanchez alleges that he is a veteran of the Gulf War who was in a unit in that war that “was given insecticides and pyridostigmine bromide (B.P. pills) to protect [soldiers] from chemical warfare,” and thereafter developed Gulf War illness. Docket No. 1 at 2. He further alleges that the 2012 report from the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illness (RACGWVI) concluded that the exposure to the insecticides and P.B. pills caused the illness and recommended, among other things, that vets flood their nasal cavities with a saline fluid. Id. Mr. Sanchez has tried a different saline solution than that recommended by the RACGWVI and has 23…