Gosai
(PC) Hicks v. Gosai
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DARYL ANTHONY HICKS, Case No. 2:20-cv-02303-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION
TO PROCEED ON BOTH HIS SIXTH AND
v. EIGHTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS GOSAI, et al., ECF No. 16 Defendants. 16 17 18 I previously screened plaintiff’s first amended complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. I notified plaintiff that he had adequately alleged an Eighth Amendment claim against defendant Gosai, but that his Sixth Amendment claim was not adequately pled. ECF No. 13. I notified him that he could either proceed on his cognizable Eighth Amendment claim or file an amended complaint. Id. Plaintiff subsequently filed a motion to amend the complaint, ECF No. 14, which was granted, ECF No. 15. Rather than file an amended complaint, plaintiff has now filed a document styled as a petition for leave to file an addendum and to amend. ECF No. 16. In that filing he asks that he be allowed to proceed on both his…