Owens
Owens v. Reed
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CLAUDE OWENS, Case No. 22-cv-08662-RFL
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S
v. MOTION FOR SUMMARY
JUDGMENT
J. REED, Re: Dkt. No. 18 Defendant.
12 I. INTRODUCTION Claude Owens, a prisoner incarcerated at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California, filed this pro se civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Dkt. No. 1. The Court screened the complaint and found that plaintiff had pleaded cognizable claims that his First Amendment right to be free from retaliation and his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process were violated when defendant Lieutenant Reed allegedly found him guilty of a Rules Violation Report (RVR) in retaliation for his filing a grievance against her, and denied his witnesses at the RVR hearing, respectively. Dkt. No. 6 at 2. Defendant moved for summary judgment. Dkt. No. 18. Plaintiff filed an opposition, Dkt. No. 21, his full deposition transcript and…