(PC)Sanders
(PC)Sanders v. California Department of Corrections
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DON C. SANDERS, Case No. 1:20-cv-00222-AWI-SKO (PC)
Plaintiff,
FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO
v. DISMISS ACTION FOR FAILURE TO
EXHAUST ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 14-DAY DEADLINE 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Don C. Sanders, a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, initiated this civil rights action on February 12, 2020. In his complaint, Plaintiff alleges that prison officials improperly classified him as a sex offender by affixing an “‘R’ Suffix Administrative Determinant” on a classification committee chrono dated October 29, 2019. (See Doc. 1 at 3-4, 15.) Attached to Plaintiff’s complaint are notices from November and December of 2019, notifying Plaintiff that prison officials rejected his administrative grievances regarding this matter at the first level of review. (See id. at 7, 12-14.) According to the notices, officials rejected Plaintiff’s grievances because the…