Patterson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RONALD PATTERSON, Case No. 19-cv-00147-JSC

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

DISMISS; GRANTING LEAVE TO

v. AMEND

C. ALAPISCO, et al., Defendants. Re: Dkt. No. 14

INTRODUCTION Plaintiff, a California prisoner, filed this pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He claims that Defendants, two correctional officers at the California Training Facility (“CTF”), targeted him and other black inmates for cell searches, and retaliated against him for requesting to speak to a supervisor. The Court reviewed the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a) and found that it, when liberally construed, states a claim upon which relief could be granted for the violation of Plaintiff’s rights under the Equal Protection Clause and the First Amendment. Defendants have filed a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Plaintiff filed an opposition, and Defendants…