Michael Sheridan v. Brent Reinke

MEMORANDUM

Michael Sheridan (“Sheridan”), an inmate with the Idaho Department of Corrections (the “IDOC”), appeals the adverse grant of summary judgment on his 42 U.S.C. § 1988 claims against Brent Reinke, the IDOC Director; Corizon, LLC (“Corizon”), the medical care provider for IDOC prisons; Corrections Corporation of America (“CCA”), the private entity responsible for operating the Idaho Correctional Center (“ICC”); Philip Valdez, the former ICC warden; and Norma Rodriguez, the former ICC unit manager. Sheridan also appeals several discovery orders. We affirm.

Although error to grant summary judgment to Reinke solely on the basis that he was not personally involved in the treatment of Sheridan’s post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”), Lemire v. Cal. Dep’t of Corr. & Rehab., 726 F.3d 1062, 1074-75 (9th Cir.2013), any such error was harmless, as Sheridan failed to show that Reinke engaged in unlawful conduct causally connected to a deprivation of Sheridan’s constitutional rights, Crowley v. Bannister, 734 F.3d 967, 977 (9th Cir.2013).

Sheridan also failed to demonstrate that he was deprived of constitutionally adequate care for his PTSD while at the Idaho State Correctional…