Battensby
Battensby v. Zhang
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Case No.: 3:20-cv-0001-BAS-MDD
DAVID BATTENSBY,
CDCR # AC-8920, ORDER:
13 Plaintiff, 1) GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S 14 v. MOTION TO PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C.
RONALD ZHANG; M. SOUSLEY; S.
§ 1915(a) (ECF No. 2) ROBERTS, M.D.; S. GATES, Chief,
Defendants. 2) DISMISSING DEFENDANTS
SOUSLEY, ROBERTS, AND GATES
18 PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2) AND 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b)
21 22 Plaintiff David Battensby, incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) in San Diego, California filed a pro se civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. Section 1983. (“Compl.,” ECF No. 1.) Plaintiff claims that Defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by discontinuing Plaintiff’s morphine prescription and denying his grievance and subsequent appeals. (See id. at 3–5.) Plaintiff did…