(PC) Maestas v. Sacramento County Jail

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

7 8 RANDY V. MAESTAS, Case No. 2:21-cv-0665-JDP (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

APPLICATION TO PROCEED IN FORMA

v. PAUPERIS SACRAMENTO COUNTY JAIL, et al., ECF No. 11 Defendants. SCREENING ORDER THAT PLAINTIFF: (1) FILE AN AMENDED

COMPLAINT, OR

15 (2) STAND BY HIS COMPLAINT

SUBJECT TO A

RECOMMENDATION THAT IT BE

DISMISSED

17 ECF No. 1

SIXTY-DAY DEADLINE

21 Plaintiff Randy V. Maestas bring this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action and alleges that unnamed medical providers employed by the Sacramento County Jail violated his Eighth Amendment rights by denying him surgery for a hernia. ECF No. 1 at 3. Plaintiff admits, however, that he did not exhaust his administrative remedies before filing this suit. I will give him leave to amend

1 Plaintiff refers to his condition as a “herona,” but his description of his symptoms and the similarity in spelling leads me to believe that he is referencing a hernia. 28 his complaint and to…