Medina

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WESLEY COTTON, Case No. 1:22-cv-00568 JLT EPG (PC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND

v. RECOMMENDATIONS IN PART;

GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN

MEDINA, et al., PART DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Defendants. (Docs. 70, 100)

Wesley Cotton, a state prisoner, claims that on March 19, 2022, while he was in an enclosure in Yard 3B at Corcoran State Prison, gas from cannisters deployed by corrections officers to break up a fight in Yard 3C drifted over and injured him. (See generally Doc. 1.) Plaintiff seeks to hold Officers J. Barajas, G. Chacon, A. Guerrero, I. Sanchez, and B. Markin liable for using excessive force on the inmates in Yard 3C (“Yard 3C Defendants”) because the chemical agents employed in that use of force allegedly caused Plaintiff’s claimed injuries. (See Docs. 1, 45.) Plaintiff also asserts that Sergeant S. Medina failed to protect him in violation of the Eighth Amendment when…