(PC) Bowell v. California Department of Corrections

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES BOWELL, No. 2:17-cv-0981 KJM KJN P Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel and in forma pauperis. This action proceeds on his amended civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In screening plaintiff’s amended pleading, the undersigned found that plaintiff stated cognizable civil rights claims against defendants Kathleen Allison, Director of the Division of Adult Institutions, and J. Lewis, Deputy Director, in charge of Policy & Risk Management Services for the California Correctional Health Care Services, based on plaintiff’s allegations that such defendants subjected plaintiff to involuntary TB testing. (ECF No. 17.) Further, the undersigned found that plaintiff’s new and unrelated claims that in early 2015, Dr. Fitter and Physician’s Assistant (“PA”) Ha committed medical malpractice in violation of…