Mark Clearman v. Ellen Fernando

MEMORANDUM

Mark Anthony Clearman, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his action brought under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 , 91 S.Ct. 1999 , 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971), alleging deliberate indifference to 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). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Clearman did not raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs regarding the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of his shoulder injury. See Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996) (to establish that a difference of 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” (citations omitted)).

Clearman’s remaining contentions, including that the district court…