(PC) Lucero v. State of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Timoithy Paul Lucero, No. 2:23-cv-02844-KJM-CSK Plaintiff, ORDER v. State of California, et al., 1S Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is incarcerated and is not represented by an attorney. The case is referred to the 18 assigned Magistrate Judge under this court’s local rules. The previously assigned Magistrate Judge dismissed the complaint with leave to amend. ECF No. 9. Plaintiff amended his complaint, ECF No. 11, and the previously assigned Magistrate Judge recommended dismissing the complaint without leave to amend, ECF No. 12, finding the amended complaint, like its 22 predecessor, does not “demonstrate that plaintiff has a sincerely held religious belief,” id. at 4. 23 Plaintiff objects. ECF No. 14. The court has reviewed the file de novo. Although plaintiffs professed beliefs are unconventional and perhaps self-contradictory, a federal court cannot reject an otherwise…