Stover

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

AHKEEM DESHAVIER WILLIAMS, Case No. 1:20-cv-00063-NONE-SAB

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

REQUEST FOR DIFFERENT JUDGE

v. (ECF No. 5) ROBERT H. STOVER, et al., Defendants.

16 Ahkeem Deshavier Williams (“Plaintiff”) is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On February 3, 2020, Plaintiff filed a request for this action to be reassigned to a different judge. Plaintiff seeks reassignment contending that the judge has a conflict of interest because the undersigned was assigned to his prior case, 1:19-cv-00856-DAD-SAB and his appeal of that action. Plaintiff contends that the undersigned is biased and he wants a different judge to oversee his claims in this matter because the undersigned has already been on one of his cases. He demands a new judge and is moving to dismiss the undersigned from the screening process. As relevant here, a “magistrate judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which 26 …