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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL MCNEIL, Case No. 1:19-cv-01257-DAD-JDP

Plaintiff,

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

v. THAT PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION BE DENIED

KIRAN TOOR, JR., et al., ECF No. 5 Defendants.

OBJECTIONS DUE IN FOURTEEN DAYS

Plaintiff Michael McNeil is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff seeks injunctive relief against defendants and others. ECF No. 5. For the reasons discussed below, the court recommends denying plaintiff’s motion. Plaintiff suffers from chronic pain that he argues could be cured by surgery. ECF No. 5 at 12. Starting in 2005, his pain was treated with opioid pain medicine. Id. However, he was taken off opioid medicine as part of a statewide policy to adopt guidelines for prescribing opioids that were released by the Center for Disease Control. Id. at 13. Plaintiff claims that the state has 26 …