Dai Nugyen v. Sacramento County

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Dai Nguyen appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging various constitutional violations that occurred while he was a pretrial detainee. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Nguyen’s claim against defendant Blanas because Nguyen failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to Blanas’s personal involvement in the alleged constitutional deprivation or a sufficient causal connection between Blanas’s alleged wrongful conduct and the constitutional deprivation. See Starr v. Baca, 652 F.3d 1202, 1205-08 (9th Cir.2011) (setting forth requirements for supervisory liability).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Nguyen’s claims against the remaining defendants because Nguyen faded to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether the alleged constitutional violations were proximately caused by defendants’ conduct under an official county policy, custom, practice, or procedure. See Monell v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs.,…