Raymond Hunt v. M. Ramirez

MEMORANDUM

Raymond Hunt, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging excessive force and retaliation. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Brodheim v. Cry, 584 F.3d 1262, 1267 (9th Cir.2009), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Hunt’s excessive force claim because Hunt failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendant Ramirez used more than a de minimis amount of force or that Ramirez acted “maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.” Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 6, 9-10 , 112 S.Ct. 995 , 117 L.Ed.2d 156 (1992) (“The Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments necessarily excludes from constitutional recognition de minimis uses of physical force, provided that the use of force is not of a sort repugnant to the conscience of mankind.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Hunt’s retaliation claim because Hunt failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether Ramirez was aware that…