Diaz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LARRY SMITH, No. 2:20-cv-1004 CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER RALPH DIAZ, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a California prisoner proceeding pro se with claims arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On December 30, 2020, the court screened plaintiff’s complaint as the court is required to do under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a). The court dismissed the complaint and granted leave to file an amended complaint. Plaintiff has now filed an amended complaint. Having screened the amended complaint, the court finds that it suffers from many of the same problems as the original. As plaintiff already knows, under Rule 8(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a complaint must contain, among other things, “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.” Plaintiff’s amended complaint identifies 40 defendants. Much of the information included in the amended complaint is repetitive and/or…