Segovia

Segovia v. County of Los Angeles

Good Law
41 F. App'x 126
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJuly 10, 2002No. 01-55752; D.C. No. CV-98-10254-AHMCalifornia768 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Daniel Segovia was an inmate at the Los Angeles County jail when he was attacked by other inmates and seriously injured. He sued the County of Los Angeles under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , claiming deliberate indifference to his safety under the Eighth Amendment, and now appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the County. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm. As the parties are familiar with the facts and *127 procedural history of the case, we will not detail them here except as necessary. We review a district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo. Weiner v. San Diego County, 210 F.3d 1025, 1028 (9th Cir.2000).

“The [Eighth] Amendment ... imposes duties on [jail] officials, who must provide humane conditions of confinement; [jail] officials must ensure that inmates receive adequate food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, and must take reasonable measures to guarantee the safety of the inmates.” Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) (internal quotation marks omitted). In order to succeed on an Eighth Amendment claim challenging conditions of confinement such as failure to ensure…

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