Latham

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSHUA LAWRENCE LATHAM, Case No.: 20cv2177-LAB (BGS)

CDCR #G-48528,

ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT

Plaintiff, FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM vs. PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915A

15 WARDEN MARCUS POLLARD, et al., 16 Defendants. 17 18 19 Plaintiff Joshua Lawrence Latham, currently incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) in San Diego, California, is proceeding pro se with a civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (Dkt. No. 1). Latham claims that twenty-nine RJD officials—not all named as defendants—in retaliation for filing inmate grievances, violated his First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights with false disciplinary charges, theft of his personal property, excessive use of force, cruel and unusual conditions of confinement, and involuntary psychiatric transfers. (Id. at 1–14). The Complaint was accompanied by a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”). (Dkt. No. 2). Latham later filed…