Rios

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 CYMEYON HILL, No. 2:18-cv-03089 MCE AC 12 Plaintiff, 13 v. FINDINGS & RECOMMENDATIONS 14 DAVID BAUGHMAN, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff is a civil detainee proceeding pro se with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 18 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the court is defendants’ motion for summary judgment. ECF 19 No. 46. Plaintiff has filed an opposition, ECF No. 47, and defendants have filed a reply. ECF 20 No. 48. For the reasons that follow, the undersigned recommends that the motion for summary 21 judgment be granted. 22 I. Procedural History 23 This case is proceeding on plaintiff’s first amended complaint against defendants Rios and 24 White for violations of plaintiff’s Fourteenth Amendment right to be free from excessive force. 25 ECF No. 27 (screening order). 26 II. Plaintiff’s Allegations 27 At all times relevant to the allegations in this case, plaintiff was a civil detainee at 28 California State Prison-Sacramento…