Brady

MEMORANDUM **

Albert Brady, a former Hawaii state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. *425 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 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 on Brady’s claim that defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by delaying hernia surgery, because Brady did not raise a triable issue as to whether defendants disregarded an excessive risk to his health or that the treatment they provided was medically unacceptable. See id. at 1058 (“[T]o prevail on a claim involving choices between alternative courses of treatment, a prisoner must show that the chosen course of treatment was medically unacceptable under the circumstances, and was chosen in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to the prisoner’s health.”) (quotation marks and brackets omitted).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Brady’s claim that defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by transferring him to another facility for the…