Woodson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Case No.: 3:22-cv-1549-JO-JLB

DANE E. WOODSON,

ORDER: (1) GRANTING MOTION

Plaintiff, TO PROCEED IN FORMA v. PAUPERIS AND (2) DISMISSING

COMPLAINT FOR FAILING TO

STATE A CLAIM PURSUANT TO

T. CARRANZA, J. CASARES, LOPEZ,

28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2)(B) AND R. YBARRA, R. DIN, 1915A(b) Defendants.

Plaintiff Dane Woodson is currently incarcerated at Centinela State Prison (CEN) in Imperial, California. Proceeding pro se, he filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, along with a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP). ECF Nos. 1, 2. For the reasons discussed below, the Court grants Plaintiff’s IFP motion but dismisses his Complaint with leave to amend. I. MOTION TO PROCEED IFP A party may initiate a civil action without prepaying the required filing…