Hisle v. Conanon, et al.

Filing 140

FINDINGS and RECOMMENDATIONS recommending that 122 Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment as to Defendant Conanan be Denied as Moot re 114 Amended Prisoner Civil Rights Complaint, signed by Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone on 11/10/2020. Referred to Unassigned DJ. Objections to F&R due within fourteen (14) days. (Jessen, A)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

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EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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DENNIS CURTIS HISLE,

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Plaintiff,

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v.
MARLYN CONANAN, et al.,

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Defendants.

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FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION
RECOMMENDING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR
SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO DEFENDANT
CONANAN BE DENIED AS MOOT
(ECF No. 122)

action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, filed on August 6,

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Case No. 1:17-cv-01400-NONE-SAB (PC)

Plaintiff Dennis Curtis Hisle is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights

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2020.
On March 2, 2020, Defendant Conanan filed a motion for summary judgment on the ground

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that Plaintiff failed to exhaust the inmate grievance procedures prior to filing suit. (ECF No. 107). On

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April 20, 2020, Plaintiff filed an opposition, and Defendant Conanan filed a reply on May 1, 2020.

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(ECF Nos. 115, 120).

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On August 3, 2020, the undersigned issued Findings and Recommendations finding that the

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inmate grievance plaintiff lodged regarding this instance of medical care to indisputably establish that

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he “did not include allegations that Defendant Conanan falsified medical records, failed to provide

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Plaintiff with a lay in, and failed to urgently refer Plaintiff to a pulmonologist,” and, as a result,
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plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies with respect to the asserted Eighth Amendment

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claim against defendant Conanan based on those allegations. (ECF No. 121 at 9.) Therefore, it was

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recommended that Defendant Conanan’s motion for summary judgment be granted. (Id. at 12.) The

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Findings and Recommendations were adopted in full on November 6, 2020, and the claims against

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Defendant Conanan were dismissed, without prejudice. (ECF Nos. 136, 137.)
Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, self-dated August 1, 2020, and filed on August 6,

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2020 (after the Findings and Recommendations recommending Defendant Conanan’s motion for

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summary judgment be granted) is moot as it has been determined the claims against Conanan are

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unexhausted and have been dismissed. Accordingly, it is HEREBY RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff’s

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motion for summary judgment, filed on August 6, 2020, be denied as moot.
This Findings and Recommendation will be submitted to the United States District Judge

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assigned to the case, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(l). Within fourteen (14) days

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after being served with this Findings and Recommendation, the parties may file written objections

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with the Court. The document should be captioned “Objections to Magistrate Judge’s Findings and

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Recommendation.” The parties are advised that failure to file objections within the specified time may

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result in the waiver of rights on appeal. Wilkerson v. Wheeler, 772 F.3d 834, 838-39 (9th Cir. 2014)

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(citing Baxter v. Sullivan, 923 F.2d 1391, 1394 (9th Cir. 1991)).

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IT IS SO ORDERED.

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Dated:

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November 10, 2020
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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