Petersen

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 KYLE PETERSEN, No. 1:20-cv-00884-DAD-EPG Plaintiff, SCREENING ORDER v. ORDER ALLOWING PLAINTIFF’S

COMPLAINT TO PROCEED AGAINST

ANTHONY SIMS, JR., DEFENDANT ANTHONY SIMS, JR. Defendant. (ECF NO. 1) 15 Plaintiff Kyle Petersen (“Plaintiff”) is a federal inmate proceeding pro se and in forma 16 pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents, 17 403 U.S. 388 (1971). Plaintiff filed his complaint on June 25, 2020, alleging that Defendant 18 Anthony Sims, Jr., a special agent and computer forensic specialist employed by Homeland 19 Security Investigations (HSI), violated his Fourth Amendment rights by reanalyzing, pursuant to a search warrant, forensic images obtained from his cell phones that had previously been ordered suppressed in his underlying criminal case. (ECF No. 1, p. 1-3).1 After viewing the allegations in the complaint liberally and in the light most favorable to…