Upshaw
Upshaw v. Chau
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 || JOHN WILLIAM UPSHAW, Case No.: 22cv0183-JO (BGS) CDCR #V-39102, Plaintiff ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO "| PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS VS. AND SCREENING COMPLAINT
PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C.
|| DOCTOR JOHN CHAU and WARDEN |_ 88 1915(€)(2)(B) & 1915A(b) || MARCUS POLLARD, Defendants. 18 I. Background Plaintiff John William Upshaw is a state prisoner proceeding pro se with a civil ||rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. (ECF No. 1.) Plaintiff claims that while ||incarcerated at the R. J. Donovan Detention Facility (“RJD”) in San Diego, California, 23 || Defendant Dr. Chau denied him medical care based on Plaintiff's history of drug addiction, ||and Defendant RJD Warden Pollard “allowed him to do so.” (/d. at 3-5.) Plaintiff did not prepay the civil filing fee required by 28 U.S.C. § 1914(a) at…