Hernandez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 JOSEPH HERNANDEZ, Case No. 21-cv-04368-HSG

Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING REQUEST FOR

APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

v. Re: Dkt. No. 22 I.S.U., et al., Defendants.

12 Plaintiff, an inmate at High Desert State Prison, has filed a pro se action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 regarding events that happened at Pelican Bay State Prison (“PBSP”), where he was previously housed. The complaint alleges that (1) PBSP officers Kaufman, McBride, Townsend and Bradbury violated Plaintiff’s due process rights when they placed him in administrative segregation based on evidence that lacked indica of reliability, and (2) PBSP officer Lacy retaliated against Plaintiff in violation of the First Amendment when, in retaliation for Plaintiff naming him in a staff complaint and a federal civil rights action, defendant Lacy refused to conduct an unbiased investigation of Plaintiff’s August 2017 grievance which challenged the placement in administrative segregation. Dkt.…