Clendenin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

10 JOHNNY OWENS, Case No. 1:23-cv-01056-EPG (PC) 11 Plaintiff, SCREENING ORDER 12 v. ORDER ALLOWING PLAINTIFF’S COMPLAINT TO PROCEED ON HIS

STEPHANIE CLENDENIN, ET AL., FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS

FOR VIOLATIONS OF (1) THE RIGHT Defendants. TO CURATIVE TREATMENT AND (2) THE RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM

PUNISHMENT AGAINST

DEFENDANTS CLENDENIN, PRICE,

FULTON, VAN DE PUTTE, AND

MAUL

(ECF No. 1) Plaintiff Johnny Owens is a civil detainee at Department of State Hospitals, Coalinga (“DSH- Coalinga”). He is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Defendants who are employees at DSH-Coalinga. Plaintiff filed the complaint commencing this action on July 14, 2023. (ECF No. 1). Plaintiff alleges that Defendants violated his Fourteenth Amendment right…