Pearson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JAMES PEARSON, No. 2:20-cv-02335-MCE-KJN Plaintiff, v. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS, et al., 15 Defendants.

17 Presently before the Court are two Motions for Summary Judgment, or in the alternative, Summary Adjudication, filed by the following groups of Defendants: (1) Defendants Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and the Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (“Kaiser Defendants” or “Kaiser”), ECF No. 36; and (2) Defendant Commonspirit Health (“Commonspirit” and collectively with Kaiser Defendants, “Defendants”), ECF No. 37. For the following reasons, those Motions are GRANTED.1 /// /// /// 27 1 Because oral argument would not have been of material assistance, the Court ordered these matters submitted on the briefs. E.D. Local Rule 230(g). BACKGROUND2 2 Plaintiff James Pearson (“Plaintiff”) lost his leg from above the knee in a farming accident when he was four years old and has since used…