Dougherty
(PC) Felix v. Dougherty
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TYLO JEROME FELIX, JR., Case No. 1:21-cv-01472-JLT-SKO (PC)
Plaintiff, THIRD SCREENING ORDER
v. S. DOUGHERTY, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Tylo Jerome Felix, Jr., is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Plaintiff filed his original complaint on October 1, 2021. (Doc. 1.) The Court issued its First Screening Order on February 3, 2023. (Doc. 16.) The Court found Plaintiff’s complaint stated excessive force claims against Defendants Cazores, Smotherman, Diaz, Velasquez and Arreazola in violation of the Eighth Amendment, but the remaining claims against any Defendant were not cognizable. (Id. at 9.) Plaintiff was directed to do one of the following: (1) file a first amended complaint curing the deficiencies identified in the screening order; or (2) file a notice that he did not wish to file a first amended complaint and instead wished to (a)…