Spillard
Spillard v. Hoffman
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 EVERETT L SPILLARD, Case No. 19-cv-01407-JST
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER VACATING JUDGMENT AND
9 v. REOPENING ACTION; SETTING
BRIEFING SCHEDULE
10 NURSE IVERS, et al., Re: ECF Nos. 52, 53 Defendants. 11
12 13 Plaintiff, an inmate housed at California Medical Facility, filed the instant pro se civil 14 rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. For the reasons set forth below, the Court VACATES the 15 September 22, 2021 judgment, ECF No. 53, and VACATES the portion of the Court’s September 16 22, 2021 Order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants; REOPENS this action, and 17 sets a briefing schedule. 18 DISCUSSION 19 Plaintiff brought suit against Humboldt County Jail nurse Iver Lien and doctor Michael 20 Burleson (“Defendants”), alleging that (1) they gave him psychiatric medication, specifically 21 nortriptyline, without his knowledge, in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment’s due process 22 right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, and (2)…