Jesus ESTEVEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant v. PLEASANT VALLEY STATE PRISON, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 12-15494
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
January 16, 2013
510 Fed. Appx. 631
California state prisoner Jesus Estevez appeals pro se from the district court‘s summary judgment in his
The district court properly granted summary judgment because Estevez failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants were deliberately indifferent regarding any denial, delay, or interference with Estevez‘s ability to receive back surgery or ongoing pain management. See id. at 1058 (prison officials act with deliberate indifference only if they know of and disregard an excessive risk to inmate health); Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996) (to establish that a difference of opinion amounted to deliberate indifference, a prisoner must show that the defendants’ chosen course of treatment was medically unacceptable and in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to the prisoner‘s health).
We reject Estevez‘s contentions that the district court erred in its denial of Estevez‘s motion for injunctive relief, denial of judicial notice of his state court habeas proceeding, or application of the deliberate indifference standard.
Estevez‘s motion for oral argument is denied.
AFFIRMED.