Woods

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 ROBERT WOODS, Case No. 19-cv-02470-EMC

8 Plaintiff,

ORDER OF SERVICE

9 v. Docket No. 1 10 G. MARQUEZ, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 13 I. INTRODUCTION 14 Robert Woods, a prisoner at the California State Prison - Corcoran, filed this pro se civil 15 rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. His complaint is now before the court for review under 28 16 U.S.C. § 1915A. 17 II. BACKGROUND 18 The complaint alleges the following about events that occurred in May 2015 at Salinas 19 Valley State Prison: 20 Due to prison overcrowding, Salinas Valley officials were re-housing some inmates. 21 Officials devised a scheme to house security threat group (STG) inmates with non-STG inmates in 22 hopes that one of them would object and thereby earn a trip to administrative segregation. 23 In April 2015, Mr. Woods was single-celled. In an effort to thwart any effort to house him 24 in an unfavorable situation, he found a compatible…