Arellano v. Cal. Dept. of Corrections and Rehabili
Plaintiff Raul Arellano is a prisoner currently housed by the defendant California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Department) at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County. In this personal injury action Arellano sued the Department for injuries he sustained when he suffered a seizure and fell from an upper bunk at the prison. Arellano alleges the Department is responsible for the negligence of certain employees who knew or should have known that Arellano had a seizure disorder which made it unreasonably dangerous to assign him to an upper bunk. He further claims that he provided the prison officer responsible for bunk assignments with a "medical chrono" form signed by a prison doctor specifying a bottom bunk assignment, but that this was ignored because it could not be confirmed in a computer database.
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