Simmons
Simmons v. California Correctional Health Care Services
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MELVIN JOSEPH SIMMONS, Case No. 20-cv-09282-EMC
Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
v. MOTION, AND RE-ESTABLISHING
AMENDMENT SCHEDULE
CALIFORNIA CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES, et al., Docket Nos. 22, 23 11 Defendants. 12 13 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Melvin Simmons, a California state prisoner incarcerated at the California Correctional Institution, filed a pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Complaint”), and named seven defendants. See Docket No. 1. The Honorable Lucy H. Koh reviewed the Complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915, 1915A, and dismissed the Complaint with leave to amend in part. See Docket No. 12. This action subsequently was reassigned to the undersigned. See Docket Nos. 16-17. Mr. Simmons filed a first amended complaint (“FAC”), which the Court screened. See Docket No. 13; see also 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915, 1915A (requiring a court to screen all prisoner filings). The…