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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOHN DOE, No. 2:22-cv-1949 DB P Plaintiff, v. MARIO CRUZ, et al., ORDER Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, together with a request to proceed in forma pauperis. Along with his complaint, plaintiff filed a motion to seal and a request to proceed under the pseudonym John Doe. (ECF No. 3.) REQUEST TO PROCEED UNDER PSEUDONYM AND MOTION TO SEAL Plaintiff’s request is made on the grounds that he wishes to protect his “true identity from public exposure.” (Id. at 1.) Plaintiff claims he is at risk of harassment, injury, ridicule, personal embarrassment, and assault as a result of “his sex offender prior convictions” and the fact that he lives in a homeless community. (Id. at 3.) However, plaintiff also states that “[he] has already been assaulted a number of times in the community” as a result of these convictions. (Id.) …