Escalera 144195 v. Corizon Health Incorporated

• Court: District Court, D. Arizona
• Decided: March 9, 2020
• Docket: 2:19-cv-04934
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 WO 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 7 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA

9 Justin Robert Escalera, No. CV-19-04934-PHX-MTL (JFM)

10 Plaintiff, ORDER

11 v.

12 Corizon Health Incorporated, et al.,

13 Defendants. 14 15 Plaintiff filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action alleging deliberate 16 indifference to his serious medical needs. He filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction 17 with his Complaint seeking a Bi-PAP machine to treat his obstructive sleep apnea (Doc. 2 18 at 13). In his reply, however, Plaintiff confirms that he received the Bi-PAP machine in 19 November 2019 (Doc. 13 at 10). His request for injunctive relief is therefore moot. 20 Shabazz v. Giurbino, 2017 WL 2671082, *12 (E.D. Cal. June 21, 2017) (finding request 21 for injunctive relief moot where the plaintiff received a form of the relief he requested). 22 To the extent that Plaintiff maintains he is entitled to damages because of the 23 suffering he experienced by the delay in receiving the mask, that is beyond the scope of 24 his preliminary injunctive relief request and will be addressed when the Court considers 25 the merits of his claims.1 26 ///

27 1 Plaintiff also claims that he must receive a device to clean hi Bi-Pap machine (Doc. 15 at 13-14). But the Court will not consider that at this time because it was not part of 28 Plaintiff’s original motion for injunctive relief and there is no basis to conclude at this time that he will suffer imminent, irreparable injury without a cleaning device. 1 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary || Injunction (Doc. 2) is denied as moot. 3 Dated this 9th day of March, 2020. 4

Michael T. Liburdi 7 United States District Judge 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

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