Valencia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN SCOTT McCLINTOCK, No. 2:21-cv-0850-TLN-EFB P Plaintiff, v. ORDER G. VALENCIA, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He has filed a third amended complaint (ECF No. 21) which the court must now screen. Like the prior complaint, plaintiff’s third amended complaint attempts to join unrelated claims in a single action. It is well settled that a claimant may not proceed with various unrelated claims against separate defendants: “The controlling principle appears in Fed. R. Civ. P. 18(a): ‘A party asserting a claim to relief as an original claim, counterclaim, cross- claim, or third-party claim, may join, either as independent or as

1 Federal courts must engage in a preliminary screening of cases in which prisoners seek redress from a governmental entity or officer or employee of a governmental entity. 28…