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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 KELVIN RAY ANDERSON, No. 2:21-cv-0561-EFB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER K.T. SANBORN, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He has filed an amended complaint which the court must screen.1 Screening Order In the amended complaint (ECF No. 10), plaintiff alleges that in retaliation for communicating with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Internal Affairs about the misconduct of defendants Sanborn and Reyes, Sanborn and Reyes falsified documents and issued a falsified rules violation report against plaintiff. Liberally construed, plaintiff has stated a potentially cognizable First Amendment retaliation claim against defendants Sanborn and Reyes.

1 Federal courts must engage in a preliminary screening of cases in which prisoners seek redress from a governmental entity or…