(PC) Parker v. Lynch

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MELVIN PARKER, No. 2:22-cv-2015 KJN P Plaintiff, 2:23-cv-0503 KJN (PC) v. ORDER WARDEN JEFF LYNCH, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding pro se, with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This court has determined that plaintiff’s amended complaint should be severed from his original claim suing defendant West for allegedly hiring an inmate on October 31, 2019, to kill plaintiff. Plaintiff’s amended complaint names Warden Lynch and Correctional Officers N. Burkeheart and J. Connelly for alleged sexual misconduct, retaliation, and a campaign of harassment from February of 2022 through June 2022, and reiterates his claim as to defendant West (count 4). The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provide “[p]arties may be dropped or added by order of the court on motion of any party or of its own initiative at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just. …