Alvin Witherspoon v. Bernard Warner

MEMORANDUM

Alvin Leslie Witherspoon, a Washington state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging violations of his 8th Amendment rights in connection with his medical treatment. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment for defendants because Witherspoon failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants were deliberately indifferent in treating his knee condition. See Colwell v. Bannister, 763 F.3d 1060, 1068 (9th Cir.2014) (a difference of opinion between a prisoner and patient is not sufficient to establish deliberate indifference); Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996) (to establish that a difference of medical opinion amounted to deliberate indifference, a prisoner “must show that the course of treatment the doctors chose was medically, unacceptable under the circumstances” and “that they chose this course in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to [the prisoner’s] health”).

The district court did not abuse its discretion…