(PC) Bland v. State of California

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSHUA DAVIS BLAND, No. 2:19-CV-2100-JAM-DMC-P Plaintiff, v. ORDER STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action proceeds on Plaintiff’s first amended complaint. See ECF No. 21. Plaintiff names himself and a class of 42 other inmates as plaintiffs to this action. See id. at 1. For defendants, Plaintiff names the State of California, former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and eight current or former Deputy Attorneys General for the State of California. See id. at 1-2. Plaintiff asserts generally that Defendants have misrepresented themselves in the context of their representation of the State of California. See generally ECF No. 21. This lawsuit is brought by Plaintiff and a group of other inmates, apparently as a class action. Plaintiff, however, is a non-lawyer…