Ramsey

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DANIEL RAMSEY, Case No.: 20cv1076-AJB (RBB)

CDCR #K-99536

ORDER:

Plaintiff, 13 v. (1) DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

RONALD ZHANG, MD,

15 Defendant. (2) GRANTING DEFENDANT’S

MOTION FOR SUMMARY

JUDGMENT, and

18 (3) DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL

20 Plaintiff Daniel Ramsey is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action claiming deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs in violation of the Eighth Amendment. (ECF No. 35.) Plaintiff alleges he was recommended for surgery on his back, neck and shoulder at Kern Valley State Prison in 2012, but after he was transferred to the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD”) in 2014 surgery was delayed six years because his treating physician Defendant Dr. Zhang repeatedly refused to order an MRI to determine whether…