Ketchens
Ketchens v. Corcoran
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STEVEN NOEL KETCHENS, Case No.: 3:20-cv-02457-CAB-BGS
CDCR #F-56592,
ORDER:
Plaintiff, 13 vs. 1) SCREENING COMPLAINT
PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915A
J. CORCORAN, Correctional Officer;
R. FLORES, Correctional Counselor,
AND
16 Defendants. 2) DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT
TO ISSUE A SUMMONS PURSUANT
18 TO Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(b) 19 I. Procedural History Steven Noel Ketchens (“Plaintiff”), currently incarcerated at the California Institution for Men (“CIM”) in Chino, California, is proceeding pro se in this civil action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See Compl., ECF No. 1. Plaintiff claims two Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) officials violated his constitutional rights by retaliating, harassing, inciting violence, and discriminating against him for filing prison grievances, reporting “illegal activity in Housing Unit 4A,” and “requesting a criminal probe into the misconduct that had been taking place” while he…