Leon Bullocks v. City of Las Vegas Detention Ce

MEMORANDUM

Leon Bullocks, Jr., a former detainee at the City of Las Vegas Detention Center, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that he suffered health problems from poor ventilation in his unit. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo the decision to grant summary judgment, Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004), and may affirm on any ground supported by the record. Johnson v. Riverside Healthcare Sys., 534 F.3d 1116, 1121 (9th Cir.2008). We affirm.

Summary judgment on Bullocks’s deliberate indifference claim was proper because he failed to raise a triable dispute as to whether defendants consciously disregarded an excessive risk to his health where the evidence showed that they responded to his complaints, prescribed him medicine, and granted his request for a transfer to a new unit. See Toguchi, 391 F.3d at 1057 (setting forth standard for Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claim); Carnell v. Grimm, 74 F.3d 977, 979 (9th Cir.1996) (noting that pretrial detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment deliberate indifference claim is analyzed under the same standard as such a claim under…