Cox

MEMORANDUM **

Steve Michael Cox, a Nevada state prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s summary judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his safety and his serious medical needs in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo the district court’s grant of summary judgment, Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1131 (9th Cir.2000) (en banc), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Cox’s claim that various defendants were deliberately indifferent to his safety by adopting a “loose knife policy” in the prison kitchen, because he failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether any prison official knew of and disregarded an excessive risk to inmate health or safety. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834-37 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Cox’s claims against the medical defendants because he failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether the course of treatment the prison doctors chose was medically unacceptable under the circumstances.…