Iqbal

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 IMMANUEL C. PRICE, No. 2:20-cv-01439-TLN-KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER Z. IQBAL, et. al., Defendants. 16 I. Introduction Plaintiff Immanuel C. Price, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights action seeking relief under 28 U.S.C. § 1983. He alleges that, while he was housed at High Desert State Prison, defendants Iqbal, Rueter, and Gates ignored his serious medical needs by refusing to continue his prescription of gabapentin as neuropathy treatment. (ECF No. 1.) He alleges that defendants’ actions constituted deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment, negligence, and violated Government Code section 845.6. (Id. at 3-12.) Defendants filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that plaintiff failed to state a medical deliberate indifference claim and that defendants are entitled to qualified immunity. (ECF Nos. 26 1 This Court screened his complaint and determined that plaintiff’s claim against…