In re Wentworth Civil Rights Cases

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 IN RE WENTWORTH CIVIL RIGHTS No. 21-cv-00757-BAS-AGS

CASES,

TENTATIVE ORDER DECLARING

DAWN WENTWORTH A

VEXATIOUS LITIGANT

14 15 16 For the following reasons, the Court tentatively declares Dawn Wentworth a vexatious litigant for these consolidated civil rights cases. The Court gives Ms. Wentworth an opportunity to respond to this tentative order by appearing on April 25, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. in Courtroom 4B. The Court will also tentatively subject Ms. Wentworth to a pre- filing order for any new cases related to these consolidated actions, which will be confirmed or lifted after the April 25, 2022 hearing. I. Background On April 16, 2021, Ms. Dawn Wentworth, on her own behalf and on behalf of her two children, Yaw Appiah and Journee Hudson, filed seventy-four civil rights complaints in this federal district court. Many of the complaints were duplicative; they sued the same defendants based on the same allegations. On June…