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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DEMARUEA NORTH, Case No.: 24-CV-2041 JLS (VET)

CDCR #BJ-7624,

ORDER:

Plaintiff, 13 vs. (1) GRANTING MOTION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS,

SGT. SALAZAR, ADA Correctional 15 Sergeant; S. STEADMAN, Associate (2) DISMISSING COMPLAINT Warden; JAMES HILL, Warden,

FOR FAILING TO STATE A

Defendants. CLAIM PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2) AND 1915A(b), AND

(3) DENYING MOTION

FOR CHANGE OF JURY

DEMAND AS MOOT

21 (ECF Nos. 2, 4)

Before the Court is a civil rights Complaint filed by Plaintiff Demaruea North, a prisoner at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”), who is proceeding without counsel, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See ECF No. 1 (“Compl.”). Plaintiff claims prison officials at RJD violated his constitutional rights in September 2022 by failing to provide him a surgical mattress. Id. at 3‒5. He seeks $350,000 in general and punitive damages. Id. at 7. …