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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 ANTHONY D. RAY, Case No. 2:19-cv-01865-KJM-JDP (PC) Plaintiff, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

THAT DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR

v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT BE GRANTED ONGEN PETRAS, et al., ECF No. 59 Defendants. OBJECTIONS DUE WITHIN 14 DAYS 15 16 In early October 2017, plaintiff Anthony Ray, who was at the time a state prisoner at California Medical Facility (“CMF”), began to experience severe head pains. It took eight months and more than fifteen requests for medical attention before he learned the cause of this pain: a brain tumor known as a meningioma. Plaintiff brings suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against three medical personnel at CMF—O. Petras, J. Bick, and W. McAllister—alleging that the dilatory response to his medical requests and the denial of a brain scan for eight months amounted to deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs in violation of his rights under the Eighth Amendment. ECF No. 1. …