Lucien
Lucien v. Gonzalez-Gamez
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 JARON LUCIEN, Case No. 23-cv-03670-PCP
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER SERVING COMPLAINT AND
9 v. GRANTING MOTION TO PROCEED
IN FORMA PAUPERIS
10 E. GONZALEZ-GAMEZ, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 2 Defendants. 11
12 13 Jaron Lucien, an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison, filed this pro se civil rights action 14 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The lawsuit is now before the Court for review under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. 15 For the reasons stated below, the Court orders Defendants to respond to the Complaint. 16 However, for Mr. Lucien’s benefit, the Court notes an ambiguity which Mr. Lucien may wish to 17 clarify. 18 I. BACKGROUND 19 At all relevant times, Mr. Lucien was incarcerated at Salinas Valley State Prison 20 (“SVSP”). Compl. at 1, 4.1 On March 12, 2023, Mr. Lucien spoke to multiple inmates in his duty 21 as an inmate representative. See id. at 6. While fulfilling that duty, “an argument transpired 22 between [Mr. Lucien] and another inmate,” “which resulted in a mutual combat.”…