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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 DANNY CARDENAS, G36254, Case No. 20-cv-07538-CRB (PR) Plaintiff, g v. ORDER OF DISMISSAL CALIFORNIA, Defendant(s). On February 2, 2021, the court dismissed plaintiff's “confusing if not outright || unintelligible” prisoner complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 with leave to amend to file a simple and |} concise amended complaint that makes clear “who is being sued, for what relief, and on what || theory....” ECF No. 11 at 1, 2 (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). And because the || complaint appears to be directed at a host of private individuals, the court reminded plaintiff that || “aprivate individual does not act under color of state law, an essential element of a § 1983 || action.” Id. at 2 (citing Gomez v. Toledo, 446 U.S. 635, 640 (1980)). On February 18, 2021, plaintiff filed an amended complaint the clerk docketed as a letter. || See ECF No. 12. The amended…