Allison

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

8 RAFAEL SALAS, Case No. 1:21-cv-00669-NONE-EPG (PC) 9 Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

RECOMMENDING THAT DEFENDANTS’

v. MOTION TO DISMISS BE DENIED

C. PFEIFFER, et al., (ECF No. 29)

Defendants. OBJECTIONS, IF ANY, DUE WITHIN

TWENTY-ONE DAYS

14 15 I. INTRODUCTION Rafael Salas (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action. This case proceeds on Plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment due process claim against defendants Thomas, Cortez, and Pfeiffer; Plaintiff’s First Amendment Free Exercise Claim against defendants Thomas, Cortez, and Pfeiffer; and Plaintiff’s Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”) claim against defendants Thomas, Cortez, and Pfeiffer in their official capacities. (ECF Nos. 1, 20, & 28). The core of Plaintiff’s complaint is that Defendants are not properly processing his marriage request, which is preventing Plaintiff from getting married. On September 16,…