1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ALFONSO CUEVAS GONZALEZ,
Case No. 25-cv-03153-KAW (PR) Plaintiff, ORDER OF DISMISSAL WITH LEAVE v. TO AMEND
S. SMITH, et al.,
8 Defendants.
I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Alfonso Cuevas Gonzalez, a state prisoner at Pelican Bay State Prison (“PBSP”), has filed a pro se complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the housing assignment of prisoners at PBSP’s Building 1 is racially discriminatory. Dkt. 1. Plaintiff specifically alleges that on September 25, 2024, he and certain prisoners in Building 1’s D-Yard (which had a majority of Hispanic residents at that time) were forced to move from their cells to new cells, and anyone who refused would be issued a Rules Violation Report for failing to comply with a direct order. Id. at 2-3. In addition, these prisoners were forced to be “double celled” and that this 17 “targeting” and “discrimination” has continued for all racial and ethnic prisoner populations other 18 than the…