Bell v. Lee
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 VINCENT KEITH BELL, Case No. 13-cv-05820-SI
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
9 v. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’
MOTION FOR SUMMARY
10 CHRISTOPHER KROL, et al., JUDGMENT 11 Defendants. Re: Dkt. No. 237
12 13 Now before the Court is defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Dkt. No. 237. This 14 matter came on for hearing on March 8, 2024. For the reasons set forth below, the Court GRANTS 15 IN PART and DENIES IN PART the motion. 16 17 BACKGROUND 18 I. Factual Background 19 Plaintiff Vincent Bell has been a pretrial detainee in the custody of the San Francisco County 20 Jail since 2012. Dkt. No. 48 at 2. This lawsuit stems from an incident on August 13, 2013, in which 21 plaintiff alleges that officers at the jail used excessive force against him.1 22 The following allegations are taken from the third amended complaint, Exhibit 1, which 23 contains the hand-written allegations from plaintiff’s…