GILBERT v. U.S., 3:12-cv-244-HTW-LRA. (2012)
Court: District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Number: infdco20120427b96
Visitors: 18
Filed: Apr. 27, 2012
Latest Update: Apr. 27, 2012
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER HENRY T. WINGATE, District Judge. This cause comes before this court on petitioner's petition [1] for habeas corpus relief filed pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. 2241. The petitioner is presently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Florence, Colorado. Upon a review of the record of the instant civil habeas action and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) Case Locator, this Court finds that the instant habeas petition is duplicative of the
Summary: MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER HENRY T. WINGATE, District Judge. This cause comes before this court on petitioner's petition [1] for habeas corpus relief filed pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. 2241. The petitioner is presently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Florence, Colorado. Upon a review of the record of the instant civil habeas action and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) Case Locator, this Court finds that the instant habeas petition is duplicative of the p..
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MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HENRY T. WINGATE, District Judge.
This cause comes before this court on petitioner's petition [1] for habeas corpus relief filed pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The petitioner is presently incarcerated in the United States Penitentiary, Florence, Colorado.
Upon a review of the record of the instant civil habeas action and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) Case Locator, this Court finds that the instant habeas petition is duplicative of the petitioner's pending civil habeas action in the United States District Court of Colorado in Gilbert v. USA, 1:12-cv-873-BNB (D. Colo. filed Apr. 4, 2012).1 When a civil action is duplicative of another action filed in federal court, the district court may dismiss such action. See Remington Rand Corp. v. Bus. Sys. Inc., 830 F.2d 1274, 1275-76 (3rd Cir. 1987) (quoting Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936); see also Chrysler Credit Corp. v. Marino, 63 F.3d 574, 578 (7th Cir. 1995) ("A federal suit may be dismissed for `reason of wise judicial administration . . . whenever it is duplicative of a parallel action already pending in another federal court.'" (quoting Serlin v. Arthur Andersen & Co., 3 F.3d 221, 223 (7th Cir. 1993)). Therefore, after a review and comparison of the pleadings filed in the instant civil habeas action with those filed in Gilbert v. USA, 1:12-cv-873-BNB (D. Colo. filed Apr. 4, 2012), this Court has determined that the instant civil habeas action is the same as the petitioner's pending habeas action in the United States District Court of Colorado and as such, it will be dismissed without prejudice as duplicative.
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1. The information relating to the documents and pleadings filed in Gilbert v. USA, 1:12-cv-873-BNB (D. Colo. filed Apr. 4, 2012) was obtained through PACER.
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