Todd Honeycutt v. Sandy Snider

MEMORANDUM

Nevada state prisoner Todd M. Honey-cutt 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 related to orthopedic shoes. 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 Honeycutt failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants knew of and consciously disregarded his serious medical conditions warranting orthopedic footwear. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834, 837 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) (for deliberate indifference claim, prisoner must make a subjective showing that prison officials knew of and disregarded “an excessive risk to inmate health or safety”); see also Toguchi, 391 F.3d at 1059-60 (inmate’s difference of opinion with his physician, or a difference of opinion between physicians, as to what treatment is appropriate does not constitute deliberate indifference).

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