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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BENNY WILLIAMS, No. 2:19-cv-02229-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge as provided by 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. On August 20, 2021, the magistrate judge filed findings and recommendations, which were served on all parties and which contained notice to all parties that any objections to the findings and recommendations were to be filed within fourteen days. Plaintiff has filed timely objections to the findings and recommendations. See ECF No. 66. Before this court issued its order, plaintiff filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ECF No. 68, which that court dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, noting “the order challenged in the appeal is not final or appealable.” …