Kuster

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANTWYONE LYNCH, Case No. 21-cv-09897-JSW

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING IN PART

MOTION TO DISMISS AND MOTION

v. FOR JOINDER; SCHEDULING

FURTHER DISPOSITIVE MOTION

A. KUSTER, et al., Re: Dkt. Nos. 11, 12 Defendants.

INTRODUCTION Plaintiff, a California parolee proceeding pro se, filed this civil rights case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Defendants have filed a motion to dismiss the complaint because various claims are unrelated and improperly joined. Plaintiff filed an opposition. Defendants filed a reply brief.1 For the reasons discussed below, the motion to dismiss is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART. Further dispositive motions are scheduled. DISCUSSION The federal rules on joinder of claims are straightforward. “A party asserting a claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim may join, as independent or alternative claims, as many claims as it has…