Goodlett
Goodlett v. Delgado
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Randall GOODLETT, Case No.: 19-cv-1922-AJB-AGS Plaintiff, REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
TO GRANT DEFENDANTS’
v.
MOTION TO DISMISS (ECF 9)
Ramiro DELGADO, et al., Defendants. 15 The Court considers defendants’ motion to dismiss parts of an inmate’s civil-rights lawsuit. BACKGROUND While incarcerated at R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, plaintiff Randall Goodlett alleges that a prison guard knocked him unconscious without provocation and that other officers failed to intervene or report this misconduct. (ECF 1, at 3-5.) After transferring to a new prison, Goodlett filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against those guards. (Id. at 1.) Defendants move to dismiss three portions of Goodlett’s complaint: (1) the Fourteenth Amendment substantive-due-process claim; (2) the request for money damages against defendants in their official capacities; and (3) the injunctive-relief claim. …