Crawford

I. INTRODUCTION

10 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. 11 § 1983. The operative complaint in this action is the amended complaint, in which Plaintiff 12 alleged constitutional rights violations at Pelican Bay State Prison (“PBSP”) where he was 13 previously incarcerated. Dkt. 28 at 1-2. Plaintiff named the following Defendants at PBSP and 14 the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”): CDCR Secretary Scott 15 Kernan; PBSP Captain M. Townsend; PBSP Sergeant Combs; and PBSP Correctional Officers 16 Oviatt and Spradlin. Dkt. 28 at 1-2; Dkt. 27 at 1. Specifically, Plaintiff claims arose from 17 Defendants’ alleged deliberate indifference to his safety needs stemming from an incident on April 18 13, 2016 in which Defendants Combs and Spradlin were interviewing Plaintiff relating to “his 19 alleged safety concerns” when they “deliberately forced Plaintiff out of his cell” and asked him in 20 front of other inmates whether he wanted to be housed at the Special Needs Yard (“SNY”). Dkt. 21 28 at 1-2. Plaintiff also alleged that Defendants Oviatt and Townsend took part in “conspiracies to 22 entrap[]…