Mba

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 PAUL MAZZEI, Case No. 1:24-cv-0398 JLT EPG (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS, DISMISSING THIS

v. ACTION AS BARRED BY RES JUDICATA,

AND DIRECTING THE CLERK OF COURT

MBA, et al., TO CLOSE THE CASE

Defendants. (Doc. 10)

16 Paul Mazzei is a state prisoner, who seeks to hold defendants liable for violations of his civil rights, asserting physician’s assistant Sisodia and registered nurse Mba were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs. (See generally Doc. 1.) Plaintiff brought a case based on the same allegations and against the same defendants in state court (Doc. 1 at 12-13), which ruled against Plaintiff on summary judgment (id. at 14, 18–21); and he then appealed, unsuccessfully (id. at 13, 24- 26). The magistrate judge found the claims now raised by Plaintiff are barred by the doctrine of res judicata, and recommended the action be dismissed. (Doc. 10 at…