Ruffins
Ruffins v. Din
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TYREE RAYBON RUFFINS, Case No.: 25-cv-00267-AJB-SBC
CDCR #BJ-6459,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
Plaintiff, PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS v. AND DISMISSING CIVIL ACTION
WITHOUT PREJUDICE
R. DIN, Lieutenant,
15 Defendant. (Doc. No. 2) 16 17 Plaintiff Tyree Raybon Ruffins (“Plaintiff”), a prisoner at Mule Creek State Prison (“MCSP”) in Ione, California proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Doc. No. 1, Complaint (“Compl.”)), together with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) (Doc. No. 2 (“IFP”)). Plaintiff alleges Lieutenant R. Din violated his constitutional rights at Centinela State Prison in November 2021, by failing to follow “marriage chrono” protocol after Plaintiff and another prisoner named Wilson engaged in a fight.1 (See Compl. at 3; see also Doc. No. 1-2 at 1‒3.)
26 A “marriage chrono” is prison lingo for documentation signed by a prisoner attesting to his…