(PC) Perry v. United States Penitentiary Atwater
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 GARETH PERRY, Case No. 1:20-cv-00279-SKO (PC)
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
v. MOTION FOR MISCELLANEOUS
RELIEF
UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY, ATWATER, (Doc. 16) 15 Defendant. 16 Plaintiff Gareth Perry is a federal prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action brought pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). Plaintiff moves the Court to mark all mail it sends to Plaintiff as “private” or, in the alternative, issue an order that prison staff be required to open mail from the Court in front of Plaintiff. (See Doc. 16 at 1-2.) As explained in the Court’s first screening order (Doc. 14), court records are generally open to the public, with the exception of documents filed under seal or pursuant to a protective order. See, e.g., Phillips ex rel. Estates of Byrd v. Gen. Motors Corp., 307 F.3d 1206, 1212-13 (9th Cir. 2002). “The…