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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RODERICK LYNN WADE, No. 1:22-cv-00123-KES-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

RECOMMENDING DISMISSAL OF

v. CERTAIN CLAIMS AND DEFENDANTS B. GATES, et al., (ECF Nos. 25, 27)

Defendants.

16 Plaintiff is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action. I. BACKGROUND On June 13, 2025, Plaintiff’s complaint was screened. (ECF No. 21.) The screening order found that the complaint only stated claims against Defendants Nege and Montegrande for Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference. Id. at 21. As a result, Plaintiff was given the options of moving forward with the complaint as screened; of filing an amended complaint; of filing a notice of his intent to stand on the complaint, or of voluntarily dismissing this matter in its entirety. Id. at 21-22. Plaintiff was given thirty days to take one of…