Martel

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ERIC EL, No. 2:17-cv-00463-KJM-CKD P Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS MICHAEL MARTEL, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed this civil rights action seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action proceeds on the third amended complaint in which plaintiff alleges that Certified Nursing Assistants Mendoza and Perales, and Doctor Manohar, all defendants employed at the California Health Care Facility1, were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment. ECF No. 25. Currently pending before the court are defendants’ motion for summary judgment as well as plaintiff’s cross-motion for summary judgment. ECF Nos. 56, 60. I. Allegations in the Third Amended Complaint On the morning of July 6, 2016, while an inmate at CHCF, plaintiff asked for assistance in getting out of his bed and into his wheelchair from…