Vernacchio

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOHN F. VERNACCHIO, Case No. 19-cv-07171-SI

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF SERVICE

v. Re: Dkt. No. 1 RON DAVIS, et al., Defendants.

12 John Vernacchio, an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, filed this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. His complaint is now before the court for review under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. 15 BACKGROUND The complaint alleges the following: On March 9, 2018, 65-year old John Vernacchio was removed from his prison job due to his age. Before he was removed from his job, he had worked without incident and consistently for 16 months. Vernacchio was removed from his job due to a policy or practice that prison officials have implemented that requires mandatory termination of employment when an inmate reaches 65 years of age. A committee was formed to terminate Vernacchio’s employment; Vernacchio tried to explain that he was healthy and able to do the work, but the committee members said that…