(PC) Smith v. Siskiyou County Jail

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DONNY STEWARD, No. 2:18-cv-1227 KJM KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER WARDEN LYNCH, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis. Plaintiff seeks relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In the prior screening order, plaintiff was informed that his 24- page complaint naming 8 defendants must be dismissed because he joined, in one pleading, unrelated claims that did not all arise from the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences; he was granted leave to amend. In response, plaintiff filed a 53-page amended complaint naming 26 defendants, employed at three different prisons and the Sacramento appeals office, and again alleging unrelated claims concerning excessive force, denial of medical care, unconstitutional housing in segregation, due process violations, and various state law claims. Such claims do not involve the same defendants or arise from the…