Ward

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JOSEPH WARD, Case No.: 3:23-cv-1423-BAS-AHG

CDCR #BN-7790,

ORDER:

Plaintiff, 13 vs. (1) GRANTING MOTION TO

PROCEED IN FORMA PAUPERIS

CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS

[ECF No. 2], PASCUAL, SOSA and MASSARO,

Defendants. (2) SCREENING COMPLAINT PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2) & 1915A(b), and

(3) DENYING MOTION TO APPOINT COUNSEL [ECF No. 3] 20 21 Plaintiff Joseph Ward, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 along with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis (“IFP”) and a motion to appoint counsel. (ECF Nos. 1-3.) Plaintiff claims that while housed at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) in San Diego, California, Defendants RJD Correctional Officers Pascual, Sosa and Massaro left Plaintiff’s cell door open to allow another inmate to attack him and then…