Parks

Parks v. Williams

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157 F. App'x 5
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitOctober 18, 2005No. 05-15083; D.C. No. CV-02-00657-LRHCalifornia348 words

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MEMORANDUM **

Nevada state prisoner L. Seville Parks appeals pro se the district court’s summary judgment in favor of defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging prison officials used excessive force, and were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs, when he was committed to a prison mental health unit and placed in four-point restraints in violation of the Eighth Amendment. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo a district court’s grant of summary judgment, Morrison v. Hall, 261 F.3d 896, 900 (9th Cir.2001), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Parks’s excessive force claim because Parks failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether defendants applied force “maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm,” rather than in a good-faith effort to restore discipline after Parks intentionally and repeatedly flooded the upper and lower tiers of his housing unit and verbally assaulted prison staff. See Clement v. Gomez, 298 F.3d 898, 903-04 (9th Cir.2002); see also Jeffers v. Gomez, 267 F.3d 895, 910-11 (9th Cir.2001) (a prison security measure that is undertaken for the…

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