Rahimifar

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DANIEL M. COSTON, Case No. 1:17-cv-00765-JDP

Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’

MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

v. AND DISMISSING CASE WITH

PREJUDICE

MAJIAD RAHIMIFAR and MUSHTAQ AHMED, ECF Nos. 57, 63 13 Defendants. 14 Plaintiff Daniel Murphy Coston is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in this civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff alleges medical deliberate indifference arising from spinal surgery in 2015; both defendants are physicians at the Bakersfield Hospital where plaintiff was treated. On December 9, 2019, defendants moved separately for summary judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56, arguing that the undisputed facts fail to support plaintiff’s deliberate indifference claim. See ECF Nos. 57, 63. Plaintiff filed an opposition on February 18, 2020, and defendants replied on February 26. See ECF Nos. 68, 70, 71.1 Because there is no genuine, material allegation that defendants failed…