Macomber

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 KEENAN WILKINS, also known as No. 2:16-CV-0475-TLN-DMC-P Nerrah Brown, 12 Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS v. 14 JEFF MACOMBER, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Pending before the court is plaintiff’s second amended complaint (ECF No. 20). On July 10, 2019, the court issued a screening order addressing plaintiff’s second amended complaint. See ECF No. 21. The court summarized plaintiff’s allegations as follows:

Plaintiff raises six claims in his second amended complaint. (1) Plaintiff alleges Defendants Jeff MaComber, Kelly Harrington, and Timothy Lockwood violated his Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment by knowingly allowing Plaintiff to be housed in a constitutionally inadequate double-cell. Plaintiff does not contend that the practice of double celling is itself a violation of the…