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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

Plaintiff Dennis Curtis Hisle is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights 

action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 

Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, filed on August 6, 

2020.

On March 2, 2020, Defendant Conanan filed a motion for summary judgment on the ground 

that Plaintiff failed to exhaust the inmate grievance procedures prior to filing suit. (ECF No. 107). On 

April 20, 2020, Plaintiff filed an opposition, and Defendant Conanan filed a reply on May 1, 2020. 

(ECF Nos. 115, 120). 

On August 3, 2020, the undersigned issued Findings and Recommendations finding that the 

inmate grievance plaintiff lodged regarding this instance of medical care to indisputably establish that 

he “did not include allegations that Defendant Conanan falsified medical records, failed to provide 

Plaintiff with a lay in, and failed to urgently refer Plaintiff to a pulmonologist,” and, as a result, 

DENNIS CURTIS HISLE,

 Plaintiff,

v.

MARLYN CONANAN, et al.,

Defendants.

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Case No. 1:17-cv-01400-NONE-SAB (PC)

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION 

RECOMMENDING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR 

SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO DEFENDANT 

CONANAN BE DENIED AS MOOT

(ECF No. 122)

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plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies with respect to the asserted Eighth Amendment 

claim against defendant Conanan based on those allegations. (ECF No. 121 at 9.) Therefore, it was 

recommended that Defendant Conanan’s motion for summary judgment be granted. (Id. at 12.) The 

Findings and Recommendations were adopted in full on November 6, 2020, and the claims against 

Defendant Conanan were dismissed, without prejudice. (ECF Nos. 136, 137.) 

Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, self-dated August 1, 2020, and filed on August 6, 

2020 (after the Findings and Recommendations recommending Defendant Conanan’s motion for 

summary judgment be granted) is moot as it has been determined the claims against Conanan are 

unexhausted and have been dismissed. Accordingly, it is HEREBY RECOMMENDED that Plaintiff’s 

motion for summary judgment, filed on August 6, 2020, be denied as moot.

This Findings and Recommendation will be submitted to the United States District Judge 

assigned to the case, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(l). Within fourteen (14) days

after being served with this Findings and Recommendation, the parties may file written objections 

with the Court. The document should be captioned “Objections to Magistrate Judge’s Findings and 

Recommendation.” The parties are advised that failure to file objections within the specified time may 

result in the waiver of rights on appeal. Wilkerson v. Wheeler, 772 F.3d 834, 838-39 (9th Cir. 2014)

(citing Baxter v. Sullivan, 923 F.2d 1391, 1394 (9th Cir. 1991)).

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: November 10, 2020 

UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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