Williams v. Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department

MEMORANDUM **

Michael Lee Williams, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs Department and others in Williams’ 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that he was subjected to excessive force and unreasonable searches after escaping from custody. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo a district court’s grant of summary judgment, Barnett v. Centoni, 31 F.3d 813, 815 (9th Cir.1994) (per curiam), and we review for abuse of discretion its decision not to permit further discovery, Margolis v. Ryan, 140 F.3d 850, 853 (9th Cir.1998). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Williams’ unreasonable search claims because Williams did not raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the blood draw and x-ray exam were unreasonable given the articulated justifications for the searches. See Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 559 , 99 S.Ct. 1861 , 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979).

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