Christopher John Wilson v. High Desert State Prison, et al.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 CHRISTOPHER JOHN WILSON, No. 2:25-cv-0309 CSK P Plaintiff, ORDER v. HIGH DESERT STATE PRISON, et al, Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff’s second amended complaint is before the Court. As set forth below, plaintiff is provided an opportunity to elect how he wishes to proceed. I. PLAINTIFF’S ALLEGATIONS In his second amended complaint (“SAC”), plaintiff alleges that defendants Dr. Stokmanis and Dr. D. Eaton have been and continue to be deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s serious medical needs by denying and delaying medical care for plaintiff’s spinal vertebrae C5-C6, which has no cartilage, is bone on bone, which causes plaintiff severe pain. (ECF No. 30.) Plaintiff alleges he has made multiple requests for surgery to both defendants, but both delay and prolong surgery that was already in process before plaintiff was transferred to HDSP. …