Hernandez
Johnson v. Hernandez
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3
LEWIS W. JOHNSON,
4 Case No. 19-cv-03936-YGR (PR) Plaintiff, 5 ORDER OF DISMISSAL v. 6
PATRICIA HERNANDEZ,
7 Defendant. 8
9 I. BACKGROUND 10 This suit was reassigned from a magistrate judge to the undersigned in light of a Ninth 11 Circuit decision.1 Plaintiff, a state prisoner at the Correctional Training Facility (“CTF”), filed a 12 pro se complaint for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff has since filed an amended 13 complaint, which is the operative complaint in this action. Dkt. 10. He seeks compensatory and 14 punitive damages. Id. at 3. He has been granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). Dkt. 15 8. 16 Magistrate Judge Robert M. Illman conducted an initial screening of the original complaint 17 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a). See Dkt. 9. Plaintiff alleged in the original complaint that on 18 September 27, 2018, he tripped and fell at his prison job severely injuring himself, and Magistrate 19 Judge Illman dismissed the complaint…