Koening

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 PAUL A. WILLIAMS, Case No. 19-cv-08419-SI

Petitioner,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v. Re: Dkt. Nos. 1, 4 CRAIG KOENING, Respondent.

12 This action exists because pro se petitioner Paul Williams failed to follow directions in an order issued in an earlier action he had filed. As will be explained, Williams’ failure to carefully read the court’s earlier order in his 2014 habeas action led him to file a legally meritless Rule 60(b)(6) motion and to compound the error by not indicating that the motion was intended for an existing action. As is often the situation, it is more complicated to describe the problem than to solve it. The court will dismiss this action, and require Williams to file future documents in the 2014 action. Understanding the problem in the present action is easier if one understands what occurred in Williams v. Curry, Case No. 14-cv-1795 SI (“the 2014 action”), in which Williams challenged his assault conviction from the San…