Kavin Rhodes v. R. Sailer

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Kavin Maurice Rhodes appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment on the pleadings in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs: We review de novo. Owens v. Kaiser Found. Health Plan, Inc., 244 F.3d 708, 713 (9th Cir.2001). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Rhodes’s action because Rhodes failed to allege facts sufficient to show that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his hand injury. See Jett v. Penner, 439 F.3d 1091, 1096 (9th Cir.2006) (to demonstrate deliberate indifference, the prisoner must show “a purposeful act or failure to respond to a prisoner’s pain or possible medical need” and “harm caused by the indifference”); cf. Keenan v. Hall, 83 F.3d 1083, 1092 (9th Cir.1996) (“[Vjerbal harassment generally does not violate the Eighth Amendment.”).

The district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over Rhodes’s state law claims. See Ove v. Gwinn, 264 F.3d 817, 821, 826 (9th Cir.2001) (setting forth standard of review and explaining that “[a] court may decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over related…