Petras

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 O.Z. MARTIN, No. 2:20-cv-1536 WBS CKD P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 14 DR. PETRAS, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a California prisoner proceeding pro se with an action for violation of civil 18 rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action proceeds on claim 1 in plaintiff’s amended complaint 19 (ECF No. 15). In that claim, plaintiff asserts defendants, Doctors Liu, Petras and Ota, violated his 20 Eighth Amendment rights by being deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s serious medical needs. 21 Dr. Liu is employed at San Joaquin General Hospital. Dr. Petras and Dr. Ota are employed by the 22 California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) at the California Medical 23 Facility (CMF). All three defendants have filed motions for summary judgment (ECF Nos. 91 24 and 92). 25 I. Summary Judgment Standard 26 Summary judgment is appropriate when it is demonstrated that there “is no genuine 27 dispute as to…