Stuckey

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 ANDRE KENNETH STUCKEY, et al., Case No. 20-cv-07344-YGR (PR) Plaintiffs, 5 v. ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE PEOPLE[’S] REPUBLIC OF CHINA, et al., 7 Defendants.

On October 20, 2020, Plaintiff Andre Kenneth Stuckey, a state prisoner currently incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison (“PBSP”), filed the present pro se prisoner “Class Action Complaint” on behalf of himself and additional Plaintiffs, who are also inmates at PBSP, purporting to represent all “incarcerated inmates in the State of California for damages and equitable relief suffered as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, against the Defendants, the People’s Republic of China . . . .” Dkt. 1 at 2. Plaintiff Stuckey’s request is construed as a motion for certification of a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b). The prerequisites to maintenance of a class action are that: (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is…