Baker
(PC) Foster v. Baker
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 RICKY TYRONE FOSTER, Case No. 1:23-cv-01097-JLT-EPG (PC) 11 Plaintiff, ORDER FOR PLAINTIFF TO SHOW CAUSE WHY CASE SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED v. AS BARRED BY COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL 13 CHRISTOPHER BAKER, et al., (ECF NO. 1) 14 Defendants. 15 16 Plaintiff Ricky Tyrone Foster is a state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights 17 case filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 18 Plaintiff filed a complaint in Kings County Superior Court on April 28, 2023 claiming 19 that Defendants Baker and Navarro failed to protect Plaintiff against a retaliatory inmate assault 20 and that an earlier federal court decision that dismissed such claims for failure to exhaust 21 administrative remedies was incorrect. (ECF No. 1 at 5). After being served with the complaint, 22 Defendants Christopher Baker and J. Navarro removed the case to federal court. (Id. at 1). 23 Defendants requested that this Court screen the complaint. (Id. at 2). 24 Upon review of the complaint, it appears that Plaintiff improperly seeks to relitigate a 25 final…