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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JESSE JOHNSON, JR., No. 2:23-cv-01846-DJC DB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER RICK M. HILL, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Presently before the court is plaintiff’s motion to amend. (ECF No. 8.) For the reasons set forth below, the court will grant the motion to amend. I. Motion to Amend Plaintiff has filed a motion to amend the complaint. (ECF No. 8.) Therein, plaintiff states that he seeks to amend the complaint to add an additional defendant. (Id. at 1.) The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure state that courts “should freely give leave [to amend] when justice so requires.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2). “In the absence of any apparent or declared reason—such as undue delay, bad faith or dilatory motive on the part of the movant, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice…