Holt v. Nicholas et al

Filing 57

ORDER Regarding Clarification Of Defendant Crouch's Dismissal (Doc. 44 ), signed by Magistrate Judge Gerald B. Cohn on 11/16/2011. (Fahrney, E)

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1 2 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 9 VIRGIL E. HOLT, 10 11 CASE NO. 1:09-cv-00800-AWI-GBC (PC) Plaintiff, REGARDING CLARIFICATION OF DEFENDANT CROUCH’S DISMISSAL v. (Doc. 44) 12 R. NICHOLAS, et al., 13 Defendants. / 14 15 Plaintiff Virgil E. Holt, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed this 16 civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on May 4, 2009. Doc. 1. This action is proceeding 17 on Plaintiff’s second amended complaint filed on April 8, 2010, against: 1) Defendants R. Nicholas, 18 A. Holguin, J. Ortega, L. Machado, J. Juden, G. Adame, F. Rivera, R. Valverde, D. Coontz, M. 19 Bubbel, K. Prior, J. Tyree, Large, Soto, Yubeta, Worrell, Vo, Knight, T. Crouch, Pinkerton, and 20 Valasco for violation of the Eighth Amendment; 2) Defendant Holguin for retaliation in violation 21 of the First Amendment and 3) Defendants Carrasco and D. Zanchi for supervisory liability. Doc. 22 21; Doc. 23, Doc. 28. 23 On April 26, 2011, Defendants filed a request for clarification regarding whether Defendant 24 Crouch was still in this action. Doc. 44. It is unclear whether there were originally two different 25 Defendants with the last name Crouch or if there were two different claims against the same 26 Defendant Crouch. Doc. 23 at 3, 8; Doc. 28. Defendant "Crouch" was dismissed regarding counts 27 12, 14, 15 for due process and retaliation, however, the Court found a cognizable Eighth Amendment 28 Claim Defendant "T. Crouch." Doc. 23 at 3, 8; Doc. 28. Therefore, Defendant T. Crouch is still a 1 1 defendant in this action for the Eighth Amendment claim. 2 3 IT IS SO ORDERED. 4 5 Dated: 0jh02o November 16, 2011 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2

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