(PC) Beaton v. Valley State Prison

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 PAUL NIVARD BEATON, No. 1:20-cv-0005 NONE JLT (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS TO DENY

v. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR A

TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR

VALLEY STATE PRISON, et al., PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Defendants. (Doc. Nos. 21, 24) 16 Plaintiff Paul Nivard Beaton, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, brought this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff claims that defendant Sergeant D. Miller, an official at Valley State Prison (“VSP”), retaliated against plaintiff for threatening to exercise his First Amendment right by filing an inmate grievance against Valenzuela-Quezada, a nurse at the California Department of Correction. (Doc. No. 20 at 2–4.) In April 2020, plaintiff filed a motion requesting that the court to restrain “them” from transferring him to another prison in retaliation of his exercising his First Amendment rights—though, it is unclear to the…