Battersby
Battersby v. Lien
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ERICK ALLEN BATTERSBY, Case No. 20-cv-06561-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER OF SERVICE
v. Docket Nos. 1, 5 IVRA LIEH, et al., Defendants.
12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Erick Battersby, currently an inmate at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, California, filed this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to complain about events and omissions at a jail at which he earlier was housed. His complaint is now before the Court for review under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. This order directs service on all but one Defendant and denies a motion for appointment of counsel. II. BACKGROUND Mr. Battersby complains that, while housed in the Humboldt County Correctional Facility during the time period from about October 2017 through about December 2019, he developed Raynaud’s syndrome, a condition that caused him to need extra blankets to keep warm. He complains that various members of the jail’s medical and…