(PC) Allen v. CSP- Sacramento
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MICHAEL DEWAYNE ALLEN, No. 2:20-CV-0055-TLN-DMC-P Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CARTER, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a prisoner proceeding pro se, brings this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On August 16, 2021, the Court dismissed Plaintiff’s first amended complaint with leave to amend. See ECF No. 34. In doing so, the Court outlined Plaintiff’s claims as follows:
Plaintiff states that he was admitted to the mental health crisis bed unit on May 20, 2013. See id. at 5. At the time, Plaintiff was in a “floridly psychotic and catatonic state.” Id. According to Plaintiff, Defendant Saliman, a prison doctor, called an unknown correctional officer, named as “John Doe” in the first amended complaint. Id. Plaintiff states that the unknown correctional officer came to his cell door “and sprayed me with O.C. pepper spray in my fact…