Quick

I. BACKGROUND

25 Plaintiff filed his Complaint on November 30, 2022. (ECF No. 1). He alleged that in late 26 March or April of 2019, while incarcerated at Madera County Jail as a prisoner, he was assaulted 27 by correctional officers Quick, Garza, Garcia, Valadez, Prince, and Martinez, and that nurse 28 Ontiveros denied him medical care for his injuries. (Id.) After screening, this case proceeds on Plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment excessive force and failure to protect claims against the correctional officers and the Eighth Amendment claim against Ontiveros for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. (ECF Nos. 13, 14, 18, 22). With respect to exhaustion of administrative remedies, Plaintiff stated that “he was 5 consistently denied all requests for inmate grievance forms, but he has now exhausted his 6 administrative remedies with respect to all his claims and all Defendants.” (ECF No. 1 at 10). 7 Plaintiff did not supply any further information regarding the time period during which his 8 grievances were pending or the duration of the process. 9 All Defendants have been served. Defendants Prince and Valadez have not appeared in 10 this action. In lieu of…