Snowden

MEMORANDUM **

Camille Anjanette Snowden, a former detainee at Estrella Jail in Maricopa County, Arizona, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A for failure to state a claim. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir.2000), and we affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand.

The district court properly dismissed Snowden’s claims against defendants Potts and Cohen because Snowden did not allege any facts suggesting that they were deliberately indifferent to her medical needs. See Gibson v. County of Washoe, Nev., 290 F.3d 1175, 1187 (9th Cir.2002) (stating that, the “deliberate indifference” standard is satisfied “only if the person knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health and safety”). To the extent Snow-den intended to assert an access to courts claim against Potts, her allegations failed to show that Potts frustrated or impeded a nonfrivolous legal claim. See Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 349-55 , 116 S.Ct. 2174 , 135 L.Ed.2d 606 (1996).

The district court concluded that Snow-den failed to state a substantive due…