U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2010

Elonza Tyler v. R.L. Andreasen

Elonza Tyler v. R.L. Andreasen
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided March 8, 2010 · Fernandez, Gould, Smith
370 F. App'x 776

Elonza Tyler v. R.L. Andreasen

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Elonza Jesse Tyler, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment for prison medical officials in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his medical needs. 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 because Tyler failed to raise a triable issue as to whether defendants were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs concerning his knees. 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.”) (internal quotation marks omitted, alteration in original).

Tyler’s remaining contentions are unpersuasive.

We deny all pending motions.

AFFIRMED.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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