Condalee Morris v. J. Sandoval

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Condalee Morris appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Knievel v. ESPN, 393 F.3d 1068, 1072 (9th Cir.2005). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Morris’s action because Morris failed to allege facts demonstrating that defendants knew of and disregarded an excessive risk to his health or failed to provide him with prompt medical treatment. See Jett v. Penner, 439 F.3d 1091, 1096 (9th Cir.2006) (to establish deliberate indifference based on a delay in treatment, a prisoner must show that the delay resulted in further significant injury or the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain); Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1057 (9th Cir.2004) (a prison official is deliberately indifferent only if he or she knows of and disregards an excessive risk to an inmate’s health).

The district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing without leave to amend because the deficiencies in Morris’s complaint could not be cured by amendment. See…