Dragasits
Dragasits v. Rucker
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 Steven DRAGASITS, Case No.: 3:18-cv-0512-WQH-AGS Plaintiff, REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION
ON DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY-
v.
JUDGMENT MOTION (ECF 88)
7 T. RUCKER, et al., Defendants. 10 An inmate sued prison guards for civil-rights violations, including retaliation, denying access to courts, deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, and failing to summon medical care. The guards move for summary judgment. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Stephen Dragasits is an inmate at R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility. (ECF 6, at 3.) This suit arises from two searches of his cell, exactly one year apart. A. 2015 Cell Search(es) by Defendants Rucker and Figueroa On February 9, 2015, prison officers conducted a facility-wide search. (See ECF 6, at 186; ECF 88-4, at 2; ECF 88-5, at 2; see ECF 88-1, at 8.) Two guards—defendants Rucker and Figueroa—searched Dragasits’s cell. (ECF 88-4, at 2; ECF 88-5, at 2; see ECF 6, at 186.)…