Amaral

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ANSAR EL MUHAMMAD, No. 2:20-cv-00069-KJM-CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER AND KOURTNEE AMARAL, et al., FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this federal civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On November 16, 2020, the previously assigned magistrate judge issued Findings and Recommendations that this case be dismissed without prejudice as duplicative of Muhammad v. Orr, Case No. 2:19-cv-1289-KJM-CKD (E.D. Cal.).1 Before those Findings and Recommendations could be reviewed by the district court judge, this case was reassigned after it was determined that it involved “similar questions of fact and the same question of law” as the Orr case. ECF No. 35 at 1 (citing Local Rule 123(a)(3)). Due to this reassignment, it is necessary to vacate the previously issued Findings and Recommendations. This case is proceeding on…