Gonzalez
Gonzalez v. Sedighi
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Everett Galindo GONZALEZ, Case No.: 21-cv-00792-AGS-DDL
Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING DEFENSE’S
SUMMARY-JUDGMENT MOTION
v. (ECF 42) Dr. SEDIGHI, et al.,
Defendants. 8 Various medical personnel move for summary judgment on plaintiff inmate’s civil-rights claims regarding deliberate indifference to his medical needs. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Everett Gonzalez is an inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility. (ECF 7, at 1.) Representing himself, Gonzalez sued three members of the prison’s medical staff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for providing him inadequate health care in violation of the Eighth Amendment. (See generally ECF 7.) Specifically, he claims that Dr. Sedighi improperly: (a) cancelled his gabapentin pain-medication prescription, (b) withdrew a medical order for a bottom bunk, and (c) denied his request for orthopedic shoes. (See id. at 9–14.) Similarly, Gonzalez alleges that on the one occasion…