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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

VANCE EDWARD JOHNSON,

Plaintiff, No. CIV S-04-0776 LKK EFB P

vs.

D. L. RUNNELS, et al., 

Defendants. ORDER

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Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action

seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The matter was referred to a United States Magistrate

Judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B) and Local General Order No. 262.

On February 22, 2008, the magistrate judge filed findings and recommendations

herein which were served on all parties and which contained notice to all parties that any

objections to the findings and recommendations were to be filed within fourteen days. Neither

party has filed objections to the findings and recommendations.

The court has reviewed the file and finds the findings and recommendations to be

supported by the record and by the magistrate judge’s analysis. Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY

ORDERED that:

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1. The findings and recommendations filed February 22, 2008, are adopted in

full; and 

2. Defendants’ April 18, 2007, motion to dismiss is granted in part and the

following claims are dismissed:

a. That defendant Chapman violated plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment rights

by permitting his transport from one part of the prison to another in an unsafe transvan;

b. That defendant Gower violated the Eighth Amendment by failing to

intervene when plaintiff was interrogated while sitting straddled on a chair with his hands behind

his back; 

c. That defendant Gower violated the Fourth Amendment by forcing

plaintiff to sign a form consenting to a strip search;

d. That defendant Arnold violated the Eighth Amendment by threatening

to kill plaintiff and bury him in the desert;

3. Defendants’ April 18, 2007, motion to dismiss is denied in part and the

following claims are not dismissed:

a. That Chapman was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s safety by

failing to intervene when other guards used excessive force against plaintiff;

b. That Gower was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s safety by failing

to intervene when two other defendants punched plaintiff, grabbed him out of a detention cage,

slammed him against a wall and applied pressure to him;

c. That defendant St. Andre authorized and observed as another defendant

sprayed excessive amounts of pepper spray into plaintiff’s cell and as other guards entered and

used excessive force against plaintiff;

d. That defendant Arnold was deliberately indifferent to the conditions’ of

plaintiff’s confinement when throughout his shift one night he repeatedly beat on the detention

cage where plaintiff was held and was trying to sleep; and,

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4. Defendants are granted 15 days from the date of service of this order to file and

serve an answer to the complaint.

DATED: March 25, 2008.

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