Munson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Darian Nikia MUNSON, Case No.: 25-cv-00886-AGS-SBC

CDCR #AC-8959,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION

Plaintiff, TO PROCEED IN FORMA v. PAUPERIS AND DIRECTING

U.S. MARSHAL TO EFFECT

B. MERCADO, Sergeant,

SERVICE OF PROCESS (ECF 2) Defendant. 8 9 In this civil-rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff Darian Nikia Munson, an unrepresented prisoner, claims that a correctional sergeant at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility failed to protect him from being attacked by his cellmate while he was incarcerated there. (ECF 1, at 1‒3.) He did not pay the filing fee for this lawsuit, but instead asks to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). (ECF 2.) For the reasons explained, the Court grants Munson’s motion to proceed IFP, screens his complaint under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2) and 1915A(a), finds it alleges a plausible claim for relief, and directs the U.S. Marshal to effect service of process on his behalf.…