Royzman

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ARTEM ROYZMAN, Case No.: 3:21-cv-1429-BAS-AHG

CDCR #AM6676,

12 1) SCREENING COMPLAINT Plaintiff, PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915A v.

AND

MIQUEL LOPEZ, ALEJANDRO

GONZALES, EDGAR GARCIA,

2) DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT Defendants. TO ISSUE A SUMMONS PURSUANT TO Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(b) 18 Artem Royzman (“Plaintiff”), a state inmate currently incarcerated at R.J. Donovan State Prison (“RJD”) located in San Diego, California and proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See Compl., ECF No. 1. In his Complaint, Plaintiff alleges Defendants Lopez, Garcia and Gonzalez violated his rights under the First Amendment, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (“RLUIPA”), the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause, when they intentionally deprived him of tefillin,1 despite being approved religious items for Jewish inmates and ordered from…