Kernan
(PC) Harris v. Kernan
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WAYDE HOLLIS HARRIS, No. 2:17-cv-0680 TLN KJN P Plaintiff, v. ORDER S. KERNAN, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel. This action proceeds on plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment medical claims against defendant Dr. Kuersten. On September 19, 2019, plaintiff was granted leave to file a response to defendant’s response to the court’s August 1, 2019 order (ECF No. 71). (ECF No. 75.) Plaintiff filed his response, requesting an order requiring further compliance; defendant filed an opposition, and plaintiff filed a reply. 22 The undersigned found that plaintiff may be able to demonstrate that Dr. Kuersten was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s serious medical needs by allegedly interfering with numerous recommendations of specialists concerning the diagnosis and treatment of plaintiff’s chronic GI 24 symptoms, suffered over more than four years, which remain undiagnosed, by denying…