Stewart

(PC) Peterson v. Stewart

Good Law
United States District Court, Eastern District of CaliforniaMay 7, 20242:23-cv-00692California1,033 words

Opinion

Trial Court Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RONALD KEMONI PETERSON, Case No. 2:23-cv-00692-DJC-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER v. FINDING THAT THE SECOND

AMENDED COMPLAINT FAILS TO

A.W. STEWART, et al., STATE A COGNIZABLE CLAIM Defendants. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THIS ACTION BE DISMISSED FOR

FAILURE TO STATE A COGNIZABLE

CLAIM ECF No. 19 19 20 Plaintiff, a state prisoner, brings this action against defendants and alleges that they violated his Eighth Amendment rights when they failed to address a watery floor that caused him to slip and injure himself. ECF No. 19 at 4-5. I find that this claim is non-cognizable and recommend this action be dismissed for failure to state a claim.1 25 26 1 The lawsuit appears, in many substantive respects, identical to a separate case also filed in this district raising the same slip and fall claims. See Peterson v.…

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