Valencia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN MCCLINTOCK, No. 2:22-cv-1884 KJM CSK P Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS v. G. VALENCIA, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se. In his civil rights complaint, plaintiff raised fourteen claims against seventeen defendants. On May 23, 2024, the district court ordered that this case proceeds on the following claims: (1) First Amendment retaliation claims as to defendants G. Valencia, L. Cantu and T. Cooper (claims one, two and ten); (2) Plaintiff’s claim that defendants Weaver, Luther and Hadden confiscated and destroyed a box of plaintiff’s legal materials in retaliation for plaintiff pursuing litigation as evidenced by the materials in the box that were clearly labeled (claims five, six and seven); and (3) Plaintiff’s claim that in August of 2020, defendants J. Cantu, Vega, Sgt. T. Coker, and Lt. J. Charon1 violated plaintiff’s rights by orchestrating the placement of a violent and unstable…