Heslop

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 KEENAN WILKINS, No. 2:20-cv-01622 DJC SCR P 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS 14 S. HESLOP, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a former state prisoner proceeding pro se in this civil rights action under 42 18 U.S.C. § 1983.1 Before the court is defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment. (ECF No. 19 51.) For the reasons described below, the undersigned recommends that defendants’ motion be 20 granted except as to their request for summary adjudication of punitive damages. 21 BACKGROUND 22 I. Second Amended Complaint 23 The case proceeds on plaintiff’s second amended complaint (“SAC”) filed on November 24 7, 2022. (ECF No. 20.) At all relevant times, plaintiff was an inmate at California Health Care 25 Facility (“CHCF”). (Id. at 1.) Plaintiff alleges that defendant Heslop used excessive force on 26 January 17, 2019, after removing plaintiff from his mental health group therapy session, and…