Auld

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 RICHARD GOSZTYLA, No. 2:22-cv-01276-KJM-EFB (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER AULD, et al., Defendants. 18 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff initiated this action on July 19, 2022 (ECF No. 1) and filed his First Amended Complaint (FAC) on October 17, 2022. ECF No. 10. In his FAC, plaintiff alleges that defendants, all supervising medical staff at Mule Creek State Prison, violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to medical privacy and placed him at unreasonable risk of harm from other inmates in violation of the Eighth Amendment by placing him in a cell with a public sign indicating that plaintiff had refused to be tested for COVID-19, while also halting regular inmate programming until all inmates had complied with testing. Id. After screening the FAC, this court found that plaintiff had stated potentially cognizable Eighth and Fourteenth…