Case Name: Edward L. GRAY, II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. D. ROBINSON, MTA; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-09-24
Citations: 481 F. App'x 380
Docket Number: No. 11-16865
Parties: Edward L. GRAY, II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. D. ROBINSON, MTA; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: WARDLAW, CLIFTON, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 481
Pages: 380–380

Head Matter:
Edward L. GRAY, II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. D. ROBINSON, MTA; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 11-16865.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Sept. 10, 2012.
Filed Sept. 24, 2012.
Edward L. Gray, II, San Luis Obispo, CA, pro se.
Kenneth T. Roost, Esquire, AGCA-Of-fice of the California Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, Martha M. Stringer, Matthew Ross Wilson, Esquire, Williams & Associates, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before: WARDLAW, CLIFTON, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Edward L. Gray, II, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court's summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging deliberate indifference to serious medical needs in connection with his treatment for valley fever. We have jurisdiction under 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 Gray failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants failed to respond adequately to his illness. See id. at 1058 (prison officials act with deliberate indifference only if they know of and disregard an excessive risk to inmate health); Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996) (to establish that a difference of opinion amounted to deliberate indifference, a prisoner must show that the defendants' chosen course of treatment was medically unacceptable and in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to the prisoner's health).
The district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to continue defendants' summary judgment motions until Gray could conduct additional discovery because Gray failed to identify the specific facts that additional discovery would have revealed or how those facts would have been essential to resist the summary judgment motions. See California ex rel. Cal. Dep't of Toxic Substances Control v. Campbell, 138 F.3d 772, 779-80 (9th Cir.1998) (standard of review and setting forth relevant factors).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.