Eldridge Payne v. County of Orange

MEMORANDUM

Eldridge Payne (“Payne”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the County of Orange (“County”) in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“ § 1983”) action against the County alleging that in 2007, when Payne was an inmate of the County Men’s Central jail, he was brutally beaten by other inmates and paralyzed from the waist down. He alleges that the deficient policies and customs of the County Sheriffs Department caused or contributed to the violence he suffered at the hands of other inmates and deprived him of his constitutional rights. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

The district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to consider: (1) the County District Attorney’s Investigative Report from the 2007 Special Criminal Grand Jury Inquiry into the death of John Derek Chamberlain; and (2) the Declaration of Ronnie Williams, a former Chief of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. See General Elec. Co. v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136, 141 , 118 S.Ct. 512 , 139 L.Ed.2d 508 (1997) (holding that “abuse of discretion is the proper standard of review of a district court’s evidentiary rulings”); Orr v. Bank of Am., NT & SA, 285 F.3d…