Opinion
CIVIL ACTION NO. 5:10-cv-4-DCB-MTP.
July 2, 2010
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This cause comes before this court on petitioner's response [5] filed on May 26, 2010. The petitioner is presently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Center, Yazoo City, Mississippi. He filed the instant civil habeas action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on January 19, 2010. 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 as discussed below that the instant habeas petition is duplicative of the petitioner's pending civil habeas action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Luddock Division in Diaz v. United States, case number 5:08-cv-0224-C (N.D. Tex. Mar. 12, 2009).
Background
The petitioner brings the instant civil habeas action requesting that the federal sentence he is presently serving be credited with the time he spent at liberty. The petitioner claims that he was erroneously released from the Texas Department of Corrections on August 13, 2003. Moreover, he was not taken into custody by the United States Marshal Service until March 7, 2007. Therefore, he argues that his federal sentence should be credited with the time he spent at liberty which is August 13, 2003, until March 7, 2007.
Discussion
A review of the docket entries, pleadings and court documents filed in Diaz v. United States, 5:08-cv-0224-C (N.D. Tex. Mar. 12, 2009) it is clear that the issue presented in the instant civil habeas action is presently pending before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. 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. Amer. Co., 299 U.S. 248 (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.'" (quotingSerlin v. Arthur Andersen Co., 3 F.3d 221, 223 (7th Cir. 1993)). Therefore, this Court after a review and comparison of the pleadings filed in the instant civil habeas action and Diaz v. United States, 5:08-cv-0224-C (N.D. Tex. Mar. 12, 2009) has determined that the instant civil habeas action is the same as the petitioner's pending habeas action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Consequently, the instant civil habeas action it will be dismissed without prejudice as duplicative.