Goodlow

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Ivan GOODLOW, Case No.: 3:20-cv-2038-AJB-AGS Plaintiff, REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

ON DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY-

v.

JUDGMENT MOTION (ECF 23)

6 F. CAMACHO, et al., Defendants. 9 In this civil-rights case, four defendants move for summary judgment on the ground that plaintiff failed to exhaust administrative remedies. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Ivan Goodlow, a state inmate, alleges that prison guards used unconstitutional and excessive force on him. (ECF 1, at 5-6.) As relevant here, he charges that five correctional officers abused him: defendants Camacho and Salas punched him; Marin and Gonzalez kicked him; and Sigala punched him and said, “[F]ucking noose now,” while putting a spit-mask on him. (See id.) Goodlow raised at least some of these issues in a prison grievance. Although the administrative review process cleared the officers, the final reviewer refused to address certain issues that he ruled…