Wills

MEMORANDUM **

In appeal No. 99-16050, Dale Gary Wills, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment for prison doctors in his civil rights action alleging that prison medical staff were deliberately indifferent to his cystic acne and various injuries he sustained while housed as a pre-trial detainee. In appeal No. 99-16698, Wills appeals pro se from the district court’s orders (1) dismissing, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 , Wills’ medical indifference claim against Alameda County Sheriffs Department defendants, and (2) denying him leave to file a third amended complaint. We have jurisdiction over appeal No. 99-16050 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292 and over appeal No. 99-16698 pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . 1 We review de novo the district court’s grant of summary judgment, Frost v. Agrios, 152 F.3d 1124, 1128 (9th Cir.1998), and order of dismissal, Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1193, 1194 (9th Cir.1998) (order). We affirm appeal Nos. 99-16050 and 99-16698.

Because disagreements involving alternative courses of treatment do not amount to a constitutional violation, the district court did not err by granting summary judgment for Dr. Pompey on…