Dowbak

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LANCE ALYN BENSON, No. 2:21-cv-1650 WBS AC P Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS JOHN DOWBAK, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, has filed a third amended complaint. ECF No. 43. I. Procedural History On September 13, 2021, the court received plaintiff’s original complaint. ECF No. 1. Plaintiff then proceeded to file several amendments to the complaint (ECF Nos. 9, 16, 19), which were disregarded because they were not complete pleadings (ECF No. 31 at 2, 7). Plaintiff was given the option of either proceeding on the original complaint without consideration of the supplemental filings or filing a first amended complaint. Id. at 7. He was advised that if he chose to amend the complaint “his claims must be set forth in short and plain terms, simply concisely, and directly.” Id. at 2. Given the number of…