Ronald Foster v. Sandra Cole

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Ronald P. Foster appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment as a matter of law pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50 following a jury trial in Foster’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging Eighth Amendment violations. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We dismiss.

We are unable to consider Foster’s contentions that the district court erred by granting defendant’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, and by allegedly excluding witness testimony, because Foster failed to provide any portion of the trial transcript. See Fed. R.App. P. 10(b)(2); Hall v. Whitley, 935 F.2d 164, 165 (9th Cir.1991) (per curiam). Furthermore, the district court did not abuse its discretion by denying without prejudice Foster’s request for production of transcripts at government expense because Foster did not explain the issues that he would raise on appeal. See McKinney v. Anderson, 924 F.2d 1500, 1511-12 (9th Cir.1991), overruled on other grounds by Helling v. McKinney, 502 U.S. 903 , 112 S.Ct. 291 , 116 L.Ed.2d 236 (1991) (reviewing for an abuse of discretion and noting that “[production of the transcript at government expense for an…