IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

RASHEEM JAMES DRUMMOND, ) Plaintiff, ) ) C.A. No. 25-313 Pittsburgh Vv. ) ) District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter RANDY EVANS, et al, ) Chief Magistrate Judge Richard Lanzillo Defendants. )

MEMORANDUM ORDER

Plaintiff, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Greene in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania (“SCI-Greene”), commenced this action on March 4, 2025 by lodging a pro se document entitled “order to show cause for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order” (“TRO motion”) [ECF No. 1], followed by the filing of a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (“ifp motion”) on April 24, 2025. [ECF No. 3].! This matter was referred to Chief United States Magistrate Judge Richard A. Lanzillo for report and recommendation in accordance with the Magistrates Act,

(b)(1), and Rules 72.1.3 and 72.1.4 of the Local Rules for Magistrates. Plaintiffs ifp motions have not yet been ruled upon and, more importantly, no complaint has yet been filed by Plaintiff with the Court. Because Plaintiff has failed to file a complaint in this matter, Chief Magistrate Judge Lanzillo issued a Report and Recommendation (“R&R”) on October 7, 2025 recommending that Plaintiff's TRO motion be denied and that this case be administratively closed, noting that “[w]here no complaint has been filed, ‘the court cannot make Plaintiff has since filed two more ifp motions [ECF Nos. 7, 9].

this determination and, accordingly, lacks jurisdiction to entertain the petition for injunctive relief.’” (ECF No. 12, at pp. 1-2, quoting Harrison v. Thompson,

, at *1 (W.D. Pa. Jan. 22, 2024)). No objections to the R&R have been received by the Court. After de novo review of Plaintiff's motion and other documents in the case, together with the report and recommendation, the following order is entered: AND NOW, this 12™ day of December, 2025; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction and a temporary restraining order [ECF No. 1] is DENIED, and the Clerk is directed to administratively close this case pending Plaintiff's filing of a proper complaint. The report and recommendation of Chief Magistrate Judge Lanzillo, dated October 7, 2025 [ECF No. 12], is adopted as the opinion of the court.

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