Renteria

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RONALD DAVE RENTERIA, Case No.: 3:21-cv-01507-JLS-MSB

CDCR #P-26757,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

Plaintiff, PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS v.

CUEVAS, 3d Watch Correctional Officer; 15 BYRNES, 3d Watch Correctional Officer;

KAKO, 3d Watch Correctional Officer;

MEEKS, 2d Watch Correctional Officer;

M. GARCIA, 2d Watch Correctional

Officer; RICO, Correctional Sergeant;

T. MARTINEZ, Correctional Lieutenant;

19 and MARCUS POLLARD, Warden,

Defendants. [ECF No. 2] 21 Plaintiff Ronald Dave Renteria, currently incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) in San Diego, California, is proceeding pro se in this case pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In Count 1 of his Complaint, Plaintiff claims that various RJD officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to employ protective and social distancing measures sufficient to protect him from a COVID-19 outbreak within RJD’s “C” Facility in December 2020. …