Davis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN JOSE DIVISION

PAUL DAVID JOHNSON, Case No. 20-CV-02851-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 prison staff failed to arrange a conference call for a hearing in plaintiff’s private lawsuit in Texas, and that because of prison staff’s failure plaintiff defaulted in his Texas lawsuit. See Compl. at 4. Plaintiff claimed that prison staff thus deprived plaintiff of access to the courts in violation of the First Amendment, see id. at 4-5, that this wrong was the result of a failure to train, see id. at 6, and that prison staff’s failure was intended to inflict emotional distress, see id. Plaintiff sued five defendants for these alleged wrongs. See id. at 2. Plaintiff also…