Howard Cochran v. Sudha Rao

MEMORANDUM

Arizona state prisoner Howard Cochran appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs in the treatment of pain in his hand. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Szajer v. City of Los Angeles, 632 F.3d 607, 610 (9th Cir.2011). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Cochran failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendant Rao knew of or disregarded an excessive risk of serious harm in denying, on a single occasion, Cochran’s request for pain medication, or whether her chosen course of treatment was medically unacceptable under the circumstances. See Jett v. Penner, 439 F.3d 1091, 1096 (9th Cir.2006) (setting forth standard for deliberate indifference to serious medical needs, and explaining that negligence and isolated events do not constitute deliberate indifference); 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 defendant’s chosen course of treatment was medically…