Leonard Eugene Ward v. M. H. Valadez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 LEONARD EUGENE WARD, Case No.: 19-CV-1267-LAB(WVG)

Plaintiff,

REPORT AND

v. RECOMMENDATION ON

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO

M. H. VALADEZ et al.,

DISMISS

Defendants. [Doc. No. 47.] 16 17 On September 6, 2018, Plaintiff Leonard Eugene Ward filed a Complaint against the named Defendants under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for various civil and constitutional rights violations during his incarceration in California state prison. Plaintiff also alleges various state tort claims. Defendants have moved to dismiss this lawsuit based on the running of the statute of limitations. For the reasons discussed below, this Court RECOMMENDS that Defendants’ motion to dismiss be GRANTED and the Complaint be DISMISSED without leave to amend. I. BACKGROUND Ward was sentenced on July 24, 2009, to a total term of fifty years-to-life and was thereafter incarcerated at Centinela State Prison. In…