CDCR
(PC) Kleinschmidt v. CDCR
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHARLES TRENT KLEINSCHMIDT, No. 2:25-cv-1272 AC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTIONS AND
REHABILITATION, Defendant. 17 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On May 2, 2025, plaintiff filed a civil rights complaint against defendant California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”). ECF No. 1. The complaint is twenty- one pages long, with an additional twelve pages of exhibits. Id. The complaint alleges that plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment rights were violated at Pleasant Valley State Prison (“PVSP”) when he was placed in general population after he was reincarcerated for a parole violation. Id. at 3, 7-11, 16-17, 19. He claims that in 2015 there was an incident in general population at PVSP, that since 2015 he had been housed in an SNY, and that despite the prior incident and SNY designation he was again…