Allison

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

8 RAFAEL SALAS, Case No. 1:21-cv-00669-DAD-EPG (PC) 9 Plaintiff, REISSUED FINDINGS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS, RECOMMENDING

v. THAT DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS

BE DENIED

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

OBJECTIONS, IF ANY, DUE WITHIN

FOURTEEN DAYS

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.…