Court Opinion

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        JUL 17 2018
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JEREMY RAY LOVELADY,                            No.    17-35909

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 2:16-cv-01614-PK

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
BEAMER, Dr., Prison official at Eastern
Oregon Correctional Inst.; et al.,

                Defendants-Appellees.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                              for the District of Oregon
                   Paul J. Papak II, Magistrate Judge, Presiding**

                            Submitted June 12, 2018***

Before:      RAWLINSON, CLIFTON, and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.

      Jeremy Ray Lovelady, an Oregon state prisoner, appeals pro se from the

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

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
            The parties consented to proceed before a magistrate judge pursuant to
28 U.S.C. § 636(c).
      ***
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs and negligence. We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Williams v. Paramo, 775
F.3d 1182, 1191 (9th Cir. 2014), and we affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment on Lovelady’s

deliberate indifference claim against defendant Garton because Lovelady failed to

raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether Garton delayed Lovelady’s

treatment. See Wilhelm v. Rotman, 680 F.3d 1113, 1122 (9th Cir. 2012)

(recognizing that an inadvertent failure to provide adequate medical care or

negligence in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not support a

deliberate indifference claim); see also Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c)(4) (“An affidavit or

declaration used to . . . oppose a motion [for summary judgment] must be made on

personal knowledge.”).

      The district court properly granted summary judgment on Lovelady’s

deliberate indifference claim against Beamer because Lovelady did not exhaust his

administrative remedies, and Lovelady failed to raise a genuine dispute of material

fact as to whether administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to him.

See Paramo, 775 F.3d at 1190-91 (outlining the steps involved for proper

exhaustion).

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      The district court properly granted summary judgment on Lovelady’s

negligence claim against Beamer because the claim is barred from litigation in

federal court by sovereign immunity. See Or. Rev. Stat. § 30.265(1) (requiring the

substitution of the State of Oregon as defendant for torts allegedly committed by a

state employee acting within the scope of employment); see also Holley v. Cal.

Dep’t of Corr., 599 F.3d 1108, 1111 (9th Cir. 2010) (recognizing that the Eleventh

Amendment bars damages claims against a state “unless Congress has abrogated

state sovereign immunity under its power to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment or

[the] state has waived it”). To the extent Lovelady sought injunctive relief to

prevent future harm, Lovelady’s negligence claim against Beamer is moot, as

Lovelady concedes in his reply brief that Beamer has provided the medical

treatment sought.

      Lovelady’s appeal of the denial of his request for an injunction is moot. See

Mt. Graham Red Squirrel v. Madigan, 954 F.2d 1441, 1450 (9th Cir. 1992) (when

underlying claims have been decided, reversal of district court’s effective denial of

a preliminary injunction would have no practical consequences, and the issue is

therefore moot).

      Appellees’ motion to strike portions of Lovelady’s reply brief (Docket Entry

                                          3                                   17-35909
No. 19) is denied.

      AFFIRMED.

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