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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WILLIAM JAMES GRADFORD, JR., Case No. 2:24-cv-1841-JDP (P) Plaintiff, v. ORDER WARDEN, Defendant. 16 Plaintiff, a former state inmate, brings this § 1983 action against “The Warden (CDCR).” ECF No. 1. The allegations in the complaint are insufficient to proceed past screening. Plaintiff’s application to proceed in forma pauperis makes the required showing and will be granted. Plaintiff’s complaint, however, will be dismissed with leave to amend. Screening and Pleading Requirements A complaint must contain a short and plain statement that plaintiff is entitled to relief, Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2), and provide “enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face,” Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007). The plausibility standard does not require detailed allegations, but legal conclusions do not suffice. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009). If the allegations “do…