Cruz
Cruz v. Kumbat
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 GUILLERMO TRUJILLO CRUZ, Case No. 19-cv-05825-HSG
Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY IN
FORMA PAUPERIS STATUS SHOULD
v. NOT BE REVOKED
KUMBAT, Defendant.
12 Plaintiff, an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison, filed this pro se civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on September 18, 2019. On December 30, 2019, the Court granted plaintiff leave to proceed in forma pauperis. Dkt. No. 8. On January 2, 2020, the Court screened the complaint and found that the complaint’s allegation that, on July 19, 2018, defendant Kumbat sexually harassed plaintiff stated an Eighth Amendment claim for sexual harassment and the complaint’s allegation that defendant Kumbat subsequently deliberately spread a rumor that she had been sexually harassed by plaintiff stated a cognizable claim for violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on deliberate indifference to inmate safety. Dkt. No. 9. The Court has since learned that,…