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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JESUS BONILLA CASTANEDA, Case No. 1:16-cv-01562-NONE-SKO (PC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

v. RECOMMENDATIONS

SHERMAN, et al., (Doc. Nos. 56, 65)

Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Jesus Bonilla Castaneda, a paraplegic state prisoner, brought this civil rights action pro se and in forma pauperis under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against seventeen prison officers for violations of his First and Eighth Amendment rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act. According to the allegations of the operative first amended complaint, plaintiff was pressured by defendants to bear false witness against his cellmate for supposedly attacking a correctional officer; then prison officers intentionally placed him with a assaultive cellmate and transferred him to a prison where he would be “seriously hurt or killed” in retaliation for reporting assaults; and that prison staff damaged his wheelchair but refused to repair it because it reportedly…