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KRAIN v. SMALLWOOD

Nos. 88-5632, 88-6356 to 88-6362.

880 F.2d 1119 (1989)

Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Donald SMALLWOOD; Lynn Waters; Lupe Torres; Kathleen O'Leary, et al.; Orange County Medical Association, Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Brent SUNDIN; James Alfano; Richard Beacom; Robert Fitzgerald; Gerald O'Donnell, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff — Appellant, v. Augustus KASPER; Roni Nadler; Maria Linville; Betty Linville; Luis Vargas; James Alfano; Everett Dickey; Don Z. Miller; Keith Monroe; Jay Cohn, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Paul LEE; Marshall Morgan; Richard Lavine; Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas; James Slack; Howard Weiss, et al.; Robert Peter Weiss; Booth, Mitchel & Strange; Harry Weiss, Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Anthony GUALTIERI, M.D.; Vernon Leeper; Joseph Cosentino, M.D.; Steven Wilford, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. P.J. ROTH; Robert Gates; Lynn D. Compton; Daniel Kremer; Richard Torres; Rose E. Bird; Alice Warshaw; Glen Brown; O'Flaherty, Prestholt & Bennington; Warren Deering; John Stalberg, M.D.; Wallace Wade, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TIMES MIRROR CORPORATION; Tom Johnson; Orange County Register; Freedom Newspapers, Inc.; Bob Ostman; County of Orange, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Lawrence S. KRAIN, M.D., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FREEDOM NEWSPAPERS, INC.; R. David Threshie; Halina Osinski; Milton C. Grimes; John Dratz; County of Orange; Thomas Crosby; Paul G. Mast, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Krain, M.D., Chicago, Ill., pro per.

Matthew K. Ross, Rutan & Tucker, Costa Mesa, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

John K. Butler, Portigal, Hammerton & Allen, Santa Ana, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Mark Wray and Halina F. Osinski, Duffern H. Helsing, Inc., Santa Ana, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

John J. Weber, O'Flaherty & Belgum, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Eugene Illovsky, Munger, Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Howard M. Fields and Debra Fischl, Fields, Hoffmann & Brandon, Encino, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Edmund G. Farrell, III, Murchison & Cumming, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Roger H. Granbo, Deputy County Counsel, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Steven M. Mitchel, Booth, Mitchel & Strange, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Marsha S. Miller, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Ragnhild Reif, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOODWIN, Chief Judge, NELSON and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges.

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge:

Lawrence Krain appeals the dismissal with prejudice of eight lawsuits he filed, in pro per, in the district court. After determining that a substantial question existed regarding Krain's competency to proceed pro se, a magistrate ordered Krain to produce information needed to determine whether Krain was competent. In Krain v. Smallwood, et al. the magistrate ordered Krain to comply or show cause why the case should not be dismissed...

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