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Robert Lee JENKINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ron BARNES, Warden, High Desert State Prison; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 16-15674
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted April 11, 2017 
    
    Filed April 24, 2017
    
      Robert Lee Jenkins, Pro Se
    Shanan L. Hewitt, Esquire, Attorney, Jesse Rivera & Associates, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees
    Before: GOULD, CLIFTON, and HURWITZ, 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 Robert Lee Jenkins appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in 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. Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir. 2004). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Jenkins failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendant Miranda acted with deliberate indifference by changing Jenkins’s pain medication and discontinuing Jenkins’s authorization for a cane and back brace. See id. at 1058-60 (deliberate indifference is a high legal standard; medical malpractice, negligence, or a difference of opinion concerning the course of treatment does not amount to deliberate indifference).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.