Stevens

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ARBI KAMALI, 1:19-cv-01432-JLT-GSA-PC

Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS,

RECOMMENDING THAT DEFENDANTS’

vs. MOTION FOR JUDGMENT ON THE

PLEADINGS BE DENIED

STEVENS, et al., (ECF No. 37.) Defendants.

OBJECTIONS, IF ANY, DUE WITHIN

FOURTEEN (14) DAYS

18 I. BACKGROUND Arbi Kamali (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 filed on December 2, 2019. (ECF No. 1.) This case now proceeds with Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint (FAC) filed on February 27, 2021, on Plaintiff’s claims for retaliation and excessive force against defendant Correctional Officers Rose Stevens, Ivan Villegas, Jordan Bryan, and Alen Hernandez (“Defendants”). (ECF No. 13.) More specifically, the First Amended Complaint alleges that on January 21, 2018, Defendants attacked Plaintiff using excessive force against him,…