Curtis Thompson v. John Hicks

MEMORANDUM

Curtis S. Thompson appeals the district court’s order dismissing several of his claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failure to state a claim and its order allowing evidence at trial of his alleged prior bad acts and prior convictions. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.

We review de novo a district court’s dismissal for failure to state a claim. Shroyer v. New Cingular Wireless Servs., 622 F.3d 1035, 1041 (9th Cir.2010). We recognize that “[cjourts in this circuit have an obligation to give a liberal construction to the filings of pro se litigants.” Blaisdell v. Frappiea, 729 F.3d 1237, 1241 (9th Cir.2013). We conclude that the district court should not have dismissed Thompson’s § 1983 claim for deliberate indifference to serious medical conditions. Thompson’s multiple complaints alleged that he sent many requests for medical care to jail staff over a two-year period to treat painful “infections on [his] head and backside” and “finger and toenails” and that had jail staff responded to those requests, his condition could 'have been treated with an antibiotic or over-the-counter medication. Thompson also pled…