Carlos Valladares v. Susan Hubbard

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Carlos Valla-dares 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 Valladares failed to establish a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants consciously disregarded Valladares’s medical needs after he broke his toe in a slip and fall accident in his cell. See id. at 1057 (discussing objective and subjective elements of deliberate indifference claim). Moreover, neither a short delay in treatment that did not result in further injury, nor Valladares’s disagreement with defendants’ medical judgment or course of treatment, constitutes deliberate indifference. See Jett v. Penner, 439 F.3d 1091, 1096 (9th Cir.2006) (to establish deliberate indifference based on a delay in treatment, there must be proof that it resulted in further significant injury or the wanton infliction of pain); Toguchi, 391 F.3d at 1059-60 (difference of opinion…