Opinion
No. 19-16572
11-26-2019
PETER KENNETH ROSS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHARLES L. RYAN, Director of ADOC; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 2:18-cv-03503-SPL-MHB MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
Steven Paul Logan, District Judge, Presiding Before: CANBY, TASHIMA, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
California state prisoner Peter Kenneth Ross appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir. 2000). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Ross's action because Ross failed to allege facts sufficient to show that defendants were deliberately indifferent in treating Ross's insomnia in 2006 and 2007. See Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056-1060 (9th Cir. 2004) (a prison official is deliberately indifferent only if he or she knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health; medical malpractice, negligence, or a difference of opinion concerning the course of treatment does not amount to deliberate indifference).
AFFIRMED.