Plascencia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 EDGAR PLASCENCIA, Case No.: 3:23-cv-895-RSH-SBC

CDCR #BG-9161,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM Plaintiff,

JUDGMENT

14 v. [ECF No. 12]

SAMUEL KO, Doctor; CHIRAG BHAVSAR, Doctor; KYLE SEELEY, RN;

CHRISTINA BETACOURT, LVN,

Defendants.

20 On May 15, 2023, plaintiff Edgar Plascencia, proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (ECF No. 1), together with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) (ECF No. 2). Plaintiff alleged that medical officials at Centinela State Prison violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by failing to provide adequate post-operative care or assign him to a lower bunk after doctors at Alvarado Hospital performed arthroscopic surgery on his left knee on May 23, 2022. ECF No. 1 at 9–11. /// On August 7, 2023, the Court granted Plaintiff’s motion for leave to proceed IFP, and…