Womack
Womack v. Newsome
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RODNEY WOMACK, Case No. 20-cv-04003-SI
Plaintiff,
ORDER OF DISMISSAL
v. Re: Dkt. No. 1 DAVIN NEWSOME, et al., Defendants.
12 Rodney Womack, now in custody at the California State Prison in Corcoran, filed this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The complaint is now before the court for review pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. 16 BACKGROUND This action stems from rulings in an action for writ of habeas corpus filed by Rodney Womack in 2018. U.S. District Judge Freeman dismissed the habeas petition as an unauthorized second or successive petition and denied a certificate of appealability on January 22, 2019. Docket No. 1 at 39-43. Judges Tallman and Nguyen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit later denied a certificate of appealability, and denied a motion to stay proceedings and for release. Id. at 36. Ninth Circuit Judges Farris and Murguia denied a motion for…