Steven Wilhelm v. Anthony Enenmoh

MEMORANDUM

Steven Hairl Wilhelm, a California state prisoner, 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. 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 because Wilhelm failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether Wilhelm had a serious medical need, and whether defendant Dr. Enen-moh acted with deliberate indifference when he denied Wilhelm a prescription for medicated or non-prison-issued soap. See Jett v. Penner, 439 F.3d 1091, 1096 (9th Cir.2006) (a serious medical need exists if a failure to treat a prisoner’s condition could result in further significant injury or the •unnecessary and wánton infliction of pain); Toguchi, 391 F.3d at 1057-58 (a prison official acts with deliberate indifference only if the official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health; neither a prisoner’s difference of opinion concerning the course of treatment nor mere negligence in treating a medical condition amounts…