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Case 3:22-cv-00134-JAG-MRC Document 26 Filed 12/22/22 Page 5 of 12 PagelD# 134
and E infringed his copyright, all in different transactions—should be rejected if filed by a
prisoner.” George, 507 F.3d at 607.
“The Court’s obligations under the PLRA include review for compliance with Rule 20(a).”
Coles v. McNeely, No. 3:11CV130, 2011 WL 3703117, at *3 (E.D. Va. Aug 23, 2011) (citing
George, 507 F.3d at 607).
Thus, multiple claims against a single party are fine, but Claim A against Defendant
1 should not be joined with unrelated Claim B against Defendant 2. Unrelated
claims against different defendants belong in different suits, not only to prevent the
sort of morass that these complaints have produced but also to ensure that prisoners
pay the required filing fees.
Id, (citing 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g); Showalter v. Johnson, No. 7:08CV00276, 2009 WL 1321694,
at *4 (W.D. Va. May 12, 2009)).
Ill. SUMMARY OF ALLEGATIONS AND CLAIMS
Despite receiving specific instructions about how to file a Particularized Complaint, Melby
failed to follow those instructions in a manner that aids the Court in the orderly disposition of his
claims. Instead, Melby’s Particularized Complaint appears to be a general airing of grievances
stemming from a two-month period of incarceration in the Newport News City Jail. In the August
4, 2022, Memorandum Order, the Court instructed Melby that “[t]he first paragraph of the
particularized pleading must contain a list of defendants.” (ECF No. 21, at 2.)> Melby failed to
follow that specific instruction making it difficult for the Court to ascertain exactly whom he
intends to name as a defendant. Next, Melby has several sets of numbering that the Court is unable
to follow which makes it difficult to understand his references to other paragraphs. Finally, Melby
has an initial section containing facts pertaining to claims, but then he never clearly delineates his
3 The Court employs the pagination assigned to the Particularized Complaint by the
CM/ECF docketing system. The Court corrects the capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in the
quotations from the Particularized Complaint.
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