MEMORANDUM **

The district court properly granted summary judgment on the excessive force *265 claim because Joseph Deonn Horne (“Horne”) failed to raise a triable issue as to whether prison guards acted “maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm” by using pepper spray after Horne repeatedly refused to comply with orders to cease holding his blanket up to the cell door. Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 6, 112 S.Ct. 995, 117 L.Ed.2d 156 (1992) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).

Horne’s remaining contentions are unpersuasive.

AFFIRMED.