Gamboa

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 LUIS MANUEL GARCES, Case No. 1:21-cv-00392-JLT-EPG (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR LEAVE

TO AMEND

v. (ECF No. 56).

D. HERNANDEZ,

14 Defendant.

16 Plaintiff Luis Manuel Garces (“Plaintiff”) is a state inmate proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This matter was referred to a United States Magistrate Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local Rule 302. Before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for leave to amend. (ECF No. 56). Plaintiff seeks to add defendants, to add additional factual allegations, and to add a Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. For the reasons that follow, the Court will grant Plaintiff’s motion for leave to amend, and order that this action proceed on Plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment claim against Defendants Babb, Sanders, and Gamboa for procedural due process violations, as well as Plaintiff’s Eighth 26 …