Moser

Moser v. Stewart

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137 F. App'x 55
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJune 24, 2005No. 04-15980; D.C. No. CV-02-01220-ROSCalifornia235 words

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Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Goldia Moser appeals pro se the district court’s summary judgment in favor of Arizona Department of Corrections officials, and employees of Canteen Corporation of America, in James William Marlow’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging defendants were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs by failing to provide him with a nutritionally-adequate diet. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1131 (9th Cir.2000) (en banc), and we affirm.

Summary judgment was proper on Mar-low’s claim that the low-residue diet prison doctors prescribed was nutritionally inadequate, as to a difference of opinion between a prisoner and the prison doctor does not support a claim of deliberate indifference. See Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996). Similarly, summary judgment was proper on Mar-low’s claim that he was occasionally served meals that did not comply with his medically-prescribed diet. See Wood v. Housewright, 900 F.2d 1332, 1334 (9th Cir.1990) (recognizing even gross negligence is insufficient to establish deliberate indifference).

*56 Goldia Moser’s motion to be substituted in as the…

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