Underwood

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WILLIE UNDERWOOD, Case No. 24-cv-04399-JST

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS

CDCR, et al., Re: ECF No. 17 Defendants.

12 Before the Court is Defendants Craig Koenig and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (“CDCR”) (together, “Defendants”) motion to dismiss. ECF No. 17. The Court will deny the motion. I. BACKGROUND1 Plaintiff Willie Underwood is an African-American male incarcerated at Correctional Training Facility (“CTF”) in Soledad. ECF No. 1 ¶ 11. Defendants are the CDCR, Craig Koenig (the former warden of CTF), four unknown CDCR officials to be personally identified, and Does 1–10, an unknown number of additional CDCR state custodial officials. Id. ¶¶ 12–17. This action stems from an alleged incident—“Operation Akili”—that occurred on July 20, 2020 at CTF. Because the facts are well-known to the parties and the Court has summarized the Plaintiffs’…