Kisasi David Liggins v. LEROY D. BACA, Sheriff, individual and official capacity;

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
KISASI DAVID LIGGINS,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
LEROY D. BACA, Sheriff, individual and
official capacity; et al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
No. 16-56124
D.C. No. 2:12-cv-10982-CJC-SP
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Cormac J. Carney, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted September 26, 2017**
Before: SILVERMAN, TALLMAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Kisasi David Liggins, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the
district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging
constitutional claims arising from his pretrial detention at L.A. County Men’s
Central Jail (“MCJ”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review
* 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).
FILED
OCT 5 2017
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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de novo, Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir. 2004), and we affirm.
The district court properly granted summary judgment on Liggins’s failure-
to-protect claim because Liggins failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact
as to whether defendant Prestwich made an intentional decision to reassign
Liggins’s cell or caused Liggins’s injuries. See Castro v. County of Los Angeles,
833 F.3d 1060, 1071 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc) (setting forth elements of a pretrial
detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment failure-to-protect claim).
The district court properly granted summary judgment on Liggins’s claim
against defendant Baca in his official capacity because Liggins failed to raise a
triable dispute as to whether any policy or custom of MCJ caused Liggins to suffer
constitutional injuries. See id. at 1073-76 (discussing requirements to establish
municipal liability under Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658
(1978)); see also Monell, 436 U.S. at 690 n.55 (official capacity suits are “another
way of pleading an action against an entity of which an officer is an agent”).
We reject as without merit Liggins’s contentions that defendants failed to
provide all relevant discovery.
We do not consider issues not properly raised before the district court, or
arguments not raised in the opening brief. See Smith v. Marsh, 194 F.3d 1045,
1052 (9th Cir. 1999).
AFFIRMED.

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