Wolf

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ALEKSANDR MELNICHUK, ) Case No.: 1:20-cv-00654-JLT (HC) ) Petitioner, ) ORDER GRANTING RESPONDENTS’ MOTION ) TO DISMISS AND DENYING PETITIONER’S v. ) MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ) ORDER CHAD WOLF, Acting Director of USICE, et ) al., Respondents. ) (Docs. 3, 17) ) )

On May 8, 2020, Petitioner filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus petition, as well as a motion for a temporary restraining order. (Docs. 1, 3.) Petitioner states he is being held in the Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, California. (Doc. 1 at 2, 8.) He alleges the conditions at the facility expose him to a heightened risk of contracting COVID-19, that the staff at the detention center are not following appropriate practices to minimize the risk of transmitting COVID-19, and that he has a history of health problems that place him at above-average risk of illness and death from COVID-19. (Id. at 9-12.) In his…