Kakowski

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BRIAN KAKOWSKI, Case No.: 21cv1675-JAH (RBM)

CDCR #BF-3315,

ORDER:

Plaintiff, 13 vs. (1) GRANTING MOTION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS,

15 KATHLEEN ALLISON, Secretary of the (2) DENYING MOTION TO California Department of Corrections and APPOINT COUNSEL, and Rehabilitation, et al., 17 Defendants. (3) DISMISSING COMPLAINT WITH

LEAVE TO AMEND PURSUANT TO

28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2)(B) & 1915A(b) 20 Plaintiff Brian Kakowski, a state prisoner incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) in San Diego, California, is proceeding pro se in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (ECF No. 1.) Plaintiff claims his Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection and his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment were violated because treatment for Hepatitis-C at RJD is delayed until symptoms become severe enough to cause permanent liver damage, and because his Hepatitis-C was in…