Gregory Navarre, Louisiana prisoner # 87501, seeks authorization to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) in his appeal of the district court’s order granting the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint. Navarre argues that the district court mis-characterized the summary judgment evidence and that there is a genuine dispute with respect to material issues regarding the defendants’ deliberate indifference to their duty to protect him from injury by other inmates.

*225 The evidence presented does not reflect that the defendants acted with deliberate indifference to Navarre’s right to be protected from a substantial risk of harm at the hand of other inmates. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994). Navarre failed to raise a genuine dispute with respect to any material facts that precluded the district court’s grant of summary judgment. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(a). Navarre has failed to raise an issue of arguable merit. Consequently, we may dismiss this frivolous appeal sua sponte. See Howard v. King, 707 F.2d 215, 220 (5th Cir. 1988); 5th CiR. R. 42.2.

Navarre’s motion to proceed IFP is DENIED, and the appeal is DISMISSED.