Lamarque
Lee v. Lamarque
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
George Lee, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s summary judgment for prison officials in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that prison medical officers were deliberately indifferent to his medical condition by denying him proper medical care for his serious back pain. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, United States v. City of Tacoma, 332 F.3d 574, 578 (9th Cir.2003), and we affirm.
The district court properly granted summary judgment for defendants because Lee failed to raise a genuine issue of mate *914 rial fact as to whether the prison officials acted with deliberate indifference to his medical needs. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 847 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) (holding that prison officials can only be held liable where an inmate can show that officials knew the inmate faced a substantial risk of serious harm, and disregarded that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it). Defendants’ evidence shows that Lee received extensive medical care, and his doctors did not “purposefully ignore or fail to respond to [Lee’s] pain or possible medical needs.” McGuckin…