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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 MAURICE WATKINS, No. 2:20-cv-1360 KJM DB P Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS JEFF LYNCH, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff is a former state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff claims officers failed to protect him in violation of his Eighth Amendment. For the reasons set forth below, the court will recommend that this action be dismissed because plaintiff has failed to file an opposition to defendants’ motion for summary judgment. I. Relevant Procedural History This action proceeds on plaintiff’s original compliant. (ECF No. 1.) Upon screening, the undersigned determined the complaint stated a potentially cognizable Eighth Amendment claim against defendants Enriquez, Sawaya, Rivera, Klein, Howard, and Prasad. (ECF No. 9.) Plaintiff was given the option to proceed with the complaint as screened or to file an amended complaint. (Id.) Plaintiff opted to…