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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TVARRIA DeSHAWN COLEMAN, No. 2:19-cv-1897 DB P Plaintiff,

v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

J. BILLS, et al.. Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleges claims for retaliation, violation of the right to marry, and failure to protect. Plaintiff states in his complaint that he did not exhaust his administrative remedies before filing this action. In an order filed November 4, 2019, this court gave plaintiff an opportunity to show why he should be excused from the exhaustion requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). (ECF No. 8.) In that order, this court explained the exhaustion requirement and set out the “three kinds of circumstances in which an administrative remedy, although officially on the books, is not capable of use to obtain relief” as described by the Supreme Court in Ross v. Blake, 136 S. Ct. 1850, 1859 (2016). In a document…