Legal Opinion
Andres M. Martinez v. G.D. Stanford W. Owen M. Atkinson D. Rockholt J. Stovall
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2003No. 01-56496PublishedCited by 236 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge.
Andres M. Martinez appeals the district court’s grant of the Calipatria State Prison correctional officers’ renewed summary judgment motion on his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim. Martinez claims that the correctional officers violated his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by using excessive force against him while breaking up a prison fight in an adjacent cell. We must decide whether summary judgment was erroneously granted, despite the failure of Martinez’s counsel to file a timely opposition to the officers’ motion and the existence of a local rule indicating that such…
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