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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RUDOLPH ELLIS, No. 1:20-cv-00134-NONE-EPG (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

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v. § 1983 ACTION RALPH DIAZ, at al. (Doc. No. 15) Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Rudolph Ellis is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed under to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff brought this action against three officers working for the California Department of Corrections and Judge Somers of the Kern Superior Court, who denied petitioner’s state habeas petition. (Doc. No. 9 2–4.) In the operative first amended complaint, plaintiff claims the defendant officers denied him visitation from family members in violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, and that Kern County Superior Court Judge Somers improperly denied his habeas petition asserting plaintiff’s claim based on violation of his “visitation rights.” The matter was referred…