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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 NATHAN HILL, No. 2:19-cv-01680 DJC CKD P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. ORDER AND FINDINGS AND

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14 GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights 18 action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently pending before the court are several motions 19 filed by the parties. The court will address each motion in turn. 20 I. Procedural History 21 The docket in this case has been inundated with so many motions that the court must 22 clarify the procedural history of this case before ruling on the pending matters. This case is 23 proceeding on plaintiff’s second amended complaint docketed on May 10, 2021, asserting an 24 Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim against defendants Navarro, Medina, 25 Ceballos, and the Doe defendant captain who gave the initial order to cuff plaintiff 26 in his cell in August 2019 (Claim Two); and an Eighth Amendment…