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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Helidoro S. GONZALES, Case No.: 23-cv-2181-AGS-BJC Plaintiff, ORDER: (1) GRANTING IN FORMA v.

PAUPERIS MOTION (ECF 2);

Raymond MADDEN, et al., (2) SCREENING AND DISMISSING

IN PART COMPLAINT (ECF 1);

Defendants. (3) DENYING AS MOOT MOTION TO CORRECT (ECF 4); AND (4) GRANTING LEAVE TO FILE

EXCESS PAGES (ECF 5)

In this civil-rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, inmate Helidoro Gonzales alleges that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated when prison employees were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs and used excessive force against him. (See ECF 1, at 5–20.) For the reasons below, the Court grants Gonzales’s motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismisses some of his claims with leave to amend. MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS Parties instituting most civil actions in federal court must pay a filing fee of $402.1 See 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a). A party may…