Navarro

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 PETER M. ARENA, Case No. 1:20-cv-00617-BAM (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT

COUNSEL

v. (ECF No. 9) NAVARRO, et al.,

ORDER DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT TO

Defendants. FORWARD ORDER TO WARDEN OF

CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON, CORCORAN

16 Plaintiff Peter M. Arena (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I. Service on Warden Plaintiff has raised serious and concerning allegations regarding past and ongoing retaliation he has faced at the hands of correctional staff at California State Prison, Corcoran. This retaliation has apparently been recently perpetrated, at least in part, by correctional staff named as defendants in the instant lawsuit, which itself alleges that Plaintiff has suffered retaliation—in the form of beatings at the hands of correctional staff and denial of medical care following the attacks—for filing grievances and…