Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2011-10-12 00:02:16+00
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FILED
                              NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           OCT 11 2011

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                      UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                     U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                              FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

KENNETH LOPEZ,                                   No. 10-17364

                Plaintiff - Appellant,           D.C. No. 2:09-cv-01928-GEB-
                                                 GGH
  v.

SUE HUBBARD; et al.,                             MEMORANDUM *

                Defendants - Appellees.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Eastern District of California
                  Gregory G. Hollows, Magistrate Judge, Presiding **

                           Submitted September 27, 2011 ***

Before:         SILVERMAN, W. FLETCHER, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

       California state prisoner Kenneth Lopez appeals pro se from the district

court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants

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

          **
            The parties consented to proceed before a magistrate judge. See 28
U.S.C. § 636(c).
          ***
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Accordingly, Lopez’s
request for oral argument is denied.
were deliberately indifferent to his safety by not ordering that he be single-celled.

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 may affirm on any ground

supported by the record, Enlow v. Salem-Keizer Yellow Cab Co., 389 F.3d 802,

811 (9th Cir. 2004), and we affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment because Lopez failed

to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants were

deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm to him when they

denied his request for single-cell status. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825,

837, 843-44 (1994) (explaining that a prison official is not liable for failing to

protect one inmate from another unless the prisoner shows that he was housed

under conditions that posed a substantial risk of serious harm, and that the prison

official acted with deliberate indifference to the prisoner’s safety).

      AFFIRMED.

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