Shaw
(PC) Newson v. Shaw
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 RAYMOND NEWSON, No. 2:18-cv-2010 CKD P Plaintiff, v. ORDER AND STEPHEN SHAW, et al., FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is proceeding pro se. At all times relevant, plaintiff was a prisoner at the California Medical Facility and defendants Shaw and Ikegbu were employed there as physicians. The claims which remain arise under the Eighth Amendment and California tort law. ECF No. 9 & 18. Defendants motion for summary judgment is before the court. I. Standards A. Summary Judgment Summary judgment is appropriate when it is demonstrated that there “is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(a). A party asserting that a fact cannot be disputed must support the assertion by “citing to particular parts of materials in the record, including depositions, documents, electronically stored…