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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ----oo0oo---- 11 DOMINIQUE MERRIMAN, No. 2:19-cv-1446-WBS-CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER J. PONDER, et al., Defendants. 17 ----oo0oo---- Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. On February 1, 2021, the magistrate judge filed findings and recommendations herein which were served on all parties and which contained notice to all parties that any objections to the findings and recommendations were to be filed within fourteen days. (See Docket No. 28.) Defendants have filed objections to the findings and recommendations. (See Docket No. 29.) Defendants argue that plaintiff has not adequately stated a claim for deliberate indifference to medical needs…