(PC) Parker v. N. West

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MELVIN PARKER, No. 2:22-cv-2015 KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER WARDEN JEFF LYNCH, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff appears 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. Plaintiff’s amended complaint is before the court. As discussed below, plaintiff is again granted the option of proceeding solely as to defendant N. West, or plaintiff may delay service of process and attempt to file a second amended complaint as to defendant Lynch. Background On November 30, 2022, the undersigned found plaintiff stated a potentially cognizable Eighth Amendment claim against defendant West, an officer at California State Prison, Sacramento, who allegedly paid inmate Durrell Puckett on October 31, 2019, to murder plaintiff, assisting Puckett by removing his restraints…