Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2022-04-20 20:00:30.977079+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        APR 20 2022
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DONALD L. CALVIN,                               No. 21-35288

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 2:20-cv-00866-RSM

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
BILL ELFO, Sheriff, Whatcom County;
WENDY JONES, Chief Corrections Officer,
Whatcom County Jail; ANDREWS, AKA
Anders, Doctor, Whatcom County Jail;
OTTEN, Deputy, Whatcom County Jail;
LLOYD, Deputy, Whatcom County Jail;
KEELY, AKA Keeley, Deputy, Whatcom
County Jail; CHARROIN, Deputy, Whatcom
County Jail,

                Defendants-Appellees.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Western District of Washington
                   Ricardo S. Martinez, District Judge, Presiding

                            Submitted April 11, 2022**

Before:      McKEOWN, CHRISTEN, and BRESS, Circuit Judges.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      Washington state prisoner Donald L. Calvin appeals pro se from the district

court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate

indifference to his serious medical needs. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

§ 1291. We review de novo. Albino v. Baca, 747 F.3d 1162, 1168 (9th Cir. 2014)

(en banc). We affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment because Calvin’s

2016 and 2017 claims are barred by the statute of limitations and because Calvin

was required to exhaust administrative remedies before filing his 2018 claims,

failed to do so, and failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether

administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to him. See Wallace v. Kato,

549 U.S. 384, 387 (2007) (federal courts in § 1983 actions apply the state statute of

limitations from personal injury actions and borrow applicable tolling provisions

from state law); Kimes v. Stone, 84 F.3d 1121, 1128 (9th Cir. 1996) (a claim

accrues when the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the

basis of the action); Bagley v. CMC Real Estate Corp., 923 F.2d 758, 760 (9th Cir.

1991) (statute of limitations for personal injury actions in Washington is three

years); see also Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81, 90 (2006) (“[P]roper exhaustion of

administrative remedies . . . means using all steps that the agency holds out, and

doing so properly (so that the agency addresses the issues on the merits).” (citation

and internal quotation marks omitted)).

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      The district court did not abuse its discretion in striking Calvin’s late

opposition to summary judgment or his motion to compel the release of

documents. See Lujan v. Nat’l Wildlife Fed’n, 497 U.S. 871, 895-97 (1990)

(setting forth standard of review and circumstances under which to excuse

untimeliness); Ready Transp., Inc. v. AAR Mfg., Inc., 627 F.3d 402, 404 (9th Cir.

2010) (explaining that a district court has inherent power to strike motions to

control its docket).

      We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on

appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

Nonetheless, we have considered these documents and we conclude that they are

without merit.

      Calvin’s motion to compel is denied.

      AFFIRMED.

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