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Tomas Lopez MENEWEATHER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. B. POWELL; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

MEMORANDUM

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

California state prisoner Tomas Lopez Meneweather appeals pro se from the district court's summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging Eighth Amendment violations arising from unsanitary conditions of confinement. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court's grant of summary judgment, EEOC v. Luce, Forward, Hamilton Scripps, 345 F.3d 742, 746 (9th Cir. 2003), and decision regarding qualified immunity, Elder v. Holloway, 510 U.S. 510, 516, 114 S.Ct. 1019, 127 L.Ed.2d 344 (1994). We reverse and remand.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Meneweather, he has raised a genuine issue of material fact as to the deliberate indifference of defendants B. Powell, D. Ferry, T.G. Miller, G. Bailey, A. Meyers, J. Ippolito, R. Reyes, T. Rincon, and Nurse O'Kelley with regard to the unsanitary conditions of his cell. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 842, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) ("[A] factfinder may conclude that a prison official knew of a substantial risk from the very fact that the risk was obvious."); see also Anderson v. County of Kern, 45 F.3d 1310, 1314 (9th Cir. 1995) ("[S]ubjection of a prisoner to lack of sanitation that is severe or prolonged can constitute an infliction of pain within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment.").

Defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity because, again viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to Meneweather, it would have been clear to reasonable correctional officers in defendants' positions that their failure to address the unsanitary conditions of Meneweather's cell were unlawful. See Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982).

Accordingly, we reverse the judgment and remand for further proceedings on Meneweather's deliberate indifference claims against B. Powell, D. Ferry, T.G. Miller, G. Bailey, A. Meyers, J. Ippolito, R. Reyes, T. Rincon, and Nurse O'Kelley.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

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MENEWEATHER v. POWELL
(Mar 1, 2011)