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Joseph WHITAKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JAFFE; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 13-15547.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 12, 2014.
    
    Filed June 18, 2014.
    Joseph Whitaker, Represa, CA, pro se.
    Kevin Allen Voth, Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before: McKEOWN, WARDLAW, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Joseph Whitaker appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1988 action alleging that defendants were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s summary judgment. Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment to Dr. Warfield because Whitaker failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether Warfield was deliberately indifferent in her treatment of Whitaker’s mental health issues. See id. at 1057-58 (a prison official acts with deliberate indifference only if she knows of and disregards an excessive risk to the prisoner’s health and safety); see also Starr v. Baca, 652 F.3d 1202, 1207 (9th Cir.2011) (requirements for supervisory liability for deliberate indifference); Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996) (a difference of opinion as to the need to pursue one course of treatment over another is not actionable under the Eighth Amendment).

We reject Whitaker’s contentions concerning his attempts to exhaust administrative remedies against a nonparty and that Magistrate Judge Brennan was biased.

We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n. 2 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam).

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