Brint Clark v. M. Martinez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BRINT CLARK, Case No. 5:21-cv-00463-MCS-PD

Plaintiff, ORDER DISMISSING ACTION v. FOR FAILURE TO

PROSECUTE

M. MARTINEZ, et al.,

15 Defendants. 16 17 I. Pertinent Procedural History and Plaintiff’s Claims On March 15, 2021, Plaintiff Brint Earl Clark, who is incarcerated at West Valley Detention Center (“WVDC”), filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Defendants Lieutenant M. Martinez, Sergeant Marshall, Sergeant Garcia, Corporal Flores, and John Does 1-10, along with a request to proceed without prepayment of the filing fees (“IFP Request”). [Dkt. Nos. 1, 2.] Plaintiff alleges that WVDC staff were deliberately indifferent to his physical and mental health needs in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments following his placement into administrative segregation (“Ad-Seg”) on August 26, 2020. [Id. at 5.] He also alleges that Defendants failed to protect him in violation of his rights…