Leekie

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RONALD KEMONI PETERSON, Case No. 2:23-cv-01348-WBS-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER F. LEEKIE, et al., Defendants. 16 17 18 19 20 Plaintiff, proceeding pro se, alleges that various defendants at California State Prison- Sacramento violated his constitutional rights when he slipped on a puddle from a leaking roof that left him injured. For the reasons stated below, the complaint does not state a cognizable claim. I 24 1 Plaintiff has filed another action in this district with nearly identical facts. See Peterson 25 v. Stewart, 23-cv-00692-DJC-JDP (PC). Both complaints reference plaintiff’s April 2021 fall and sue the same eight prison officials, but the instant complaint additionally alleges that plaintiff fell 26 in December 2021. While “[p]laintiffs generally have no right to maintain two separate actions involving the same subject matter at the same time in the same court and against the same defendant,” I cannot conclude that this is a duplicative…