Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

PAUL DAVID JOHNSON, Case No. 20-CV-04023-LHK

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

v.

RON DAVIS, et al., Defendants. 17 Plaintiff, a California state prisoner proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking damages for alleged civil rights violations (“Complaint”). See Dkt. No. 1. Specifically, plaintiff alleged that he was deprived of a visit from his daughter on Father’s Day and that this deprivation was retaliation for plaintiff’s refusal to go through an x-ray security machine. See Compl. at 4. Plaintiff alleged that various defendants withheld information from him in retaliation for plaintiff’s inmate grievance regarding the withheld Father’s Day visit. See id. at 18-19. Plaintiff claimed that these retaliatory acts violated the First Amendment, see id. at 4, violated his right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment, see id. at 39, were the result of improper training, see id.…