Wells
Wells v. Newsome
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 ANDRE LAVAR WELLS, Case No. 19-cv-07537-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER OF DISMISSAL
v. Docket No. 1 GAVIN NEWSOME, Defendant.
This case was opened when Andre Wells, a California prisoner, filed a pro se “motion to enterviene in order to inforce Coleman stipulations and to protect mental health patients rights.” Docket No. 1 (errors in source). The first page of the filing listed the parties above and did not have a case number. In an effort to protect Mr. Wells’ rights, the document was treated as an attempt to open a new case and was filed. The clerk notified Mr. Wells that he needed to file a complaint on the Court’s civil rights complaint form and needed to pay the civil filing fee or file an in forma pauperis application. Docket Nos. 2, 3. Mr. Wells then filed a document entitled “this is and was a motion as a class action member not a separate claim,” in which he stated that he was trying to obtain relief in the Coleman and Clark class actions already…