The following excerpt is from Miner v. Dist. Attorney's Office, No. 2:19-cv-1718-MCE-EFB PS (E.D. Cal. 2020):
Additionally, plaintiff is informed that the court cannot refer to prior pleadings in order to make an amended complaint complete. Local Rule 220 requires that an amended complaint be complete in itself. This is because, as a general rule, an amended complaint supersedes the original complaint. See Loux v. Rhay, 375 F.2d 55, 57 (9th Cir. 1967). Accordingly, once
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