Grannis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LOUIS BRANCH, Case No. 1:08-cv-01655-SAB (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER FOLLOWING REMAND FROM

THE NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF

v. APPEALS AND GRANTING PLAINTIFF

LEAVE TO FILE A FOURTH AMENDED

D. UMPHENOUR, et al., COMPLAINT

Defendants. (ECF No. 103)

16 Louis Branch (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On April 16, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit remanded this action finding that the dismissal of Plaintiff’s third amended “complaint with prejudice based solely on the lengthy screening process before magistrate judges, during which the ‘problems identified by the various [m]agistrate [j]udges had not been corrected’ despite [Plaintiff’s] repeated amendments” was improper and directed that Plaintiff be allowed to further amend his complaint. (ECF No. 355, at 7-8.) The mandate issued on May 10,…