Timmons

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ANTHONY DWAYNE TIMMONS, Case No. 24-cv-02716-PCP

Plaintiff,

ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT

v. AND GRANTING IN FORMA

PAUPERIS APPLICATION

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 2 11 Defendants.

12 13 Anthony Timmons, an inmate at the West County Detention Facility in Richmond, 14 California, filed a pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. For the reasons stated below, 15 this action is DISMISSED. Mr. Timmons’s application to proceed in forma pauperis is

GRANTED.

I. Legal Standard

18 Federal courts must screen any case in which a prisoner seeks redress from a governmental 19 entity or officer or employee of a governmental entity. See 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a). The court must 20 identify cognizable claims and dismiss claims that are frivolous, malicious, fail to state a claim 21 upon which relief may be granted, or seek monetary relief from a defendant immune from such 22 relief. 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b)(1), (2). Pro se pleadings must be liberally…