Allison

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 TRAVIS RAY THOMPSON, Case No. 1:21-cv-00001-JLT (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY ACTION

SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED FOR

v. FAILURE TO EXHAUST

K. ALLISON, et al., 21-DAY DEADLINE Defendants. 16 Travis Ray Thompson is incarcerated at Kern Valley State Prison. (Doc. 1 at 13.) He alleges that prison staff were deliberately indifferent to his health, causing him to contract COVID-19 on December 7, 2020. (See id. at 17-19.) Plaintiff has been “le[d] … to believe” that correctional officers either “deliberately contaminated his food … or solicited medical personnel to present a false positive in retaliation for litigation.” (Id. at 17-18) Plaintiff admits that he failed to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit. (Id. at 6-7.) The Prison Litigation Reform Act provides that “[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under … any other Federal law … by a prisoner confined in any…