CHESS v. DOVEY

No. 12-16516.

790 F.3d 961 (2015)

Michael CHESS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J. DOVEY, Director of Corrections; Abul, Doctor of the CDC; Midge Miller, Nurse Practitioner; Roche, Medical Doctor of the CDC; James, Medical Doctor of CDC; Dial, Medical Doctor of CDC; G. Dudley, Physician's Assistant; Anita David; M. French, Nurse Practitioner; S. Abdur-Rahman; T. Felker, Warden, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 25, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Patrick Blake (argued), Alexis Coll-Very , Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas S. Patterson (argued), Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Office of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA; Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Jonathan L. Wolff , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Diana Esquivel and Vickie P. Whitney , Deputy Attorneys General, Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WILLIAM A. FLETCHER and PAUL J. WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.


OPINION

Appellant Michael Chess brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against eight members of the medical staff at California's High Desert State Prison, alleging that they denied him constitutionally adequate medical care while he was incarcerated...

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