Buckins
Buckins v. City and County of San Francisco
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
DARRELL BUCKINS, Plaintiff, No. C 19-07969 WHA
v.
DEPUTY SANCHEZ, et. al., ORDER RE MOTION FOR
SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Defendants.
15 INTRODUCTION In this Section 1983 action for unconstitutional punishment and retaliation by San Francisco County Sheriff personnel, defendants move for summary judgment. For the below reasons, the motion is GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART. STATEMENT In 2015, plaintiff Darrell Buckins suffered bilateral tibial plateau fractures, and injured his back and neck in an auto accident. For reasons unrelated to this action, law enforcement arrested him on scene. After surgeries to add pins and at least one metal rod in his legs, he was transferred to San Francisco County Jail, where he remained in pretrial detention through mid- 2020. He used a wheelchair, walker, and then a cane. By mid-2016, however, doctors did not prescribe him assistive…