Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-08-23 20:00:31.244484+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       AUG 23 2018
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TIMOTHY PEOPLES, Jr.,                           No. 16-17348

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 3:12-cv-01281-CRB

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
RICHARD B. MACK,

                Defendant-Appellee.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Northern District of California
                   Charles R. Breyer, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted August 15, 2018**

Before:      FARRIS, BYBEE, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

      California state prisoner Timothy Peoples, Jr., 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

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
Cir. 2004). We affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment because Peoples

failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendant Mack was

deliberately indifferent in his treatment of Peoples’s health conditions. See id. at

1057-60 (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).

      The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Peoples’s motion

for recusal because Peoples failed to establish extrajudicial bias or prejudice. See

28 U.S.C. § 455; United States v. Sibla, 624 F.2d 864, 869 (9th Cir. 1980) (setting

forth standard of review); see also Clemens v. U.S. Dist. Court for Cent. Dist. of

Cal., 428 F.3d 1175, 1178 (9th Cir. 2005) (test for disqualification of judge under

§ 455(a)).

      We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued

in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

      We reject as without merit Peoples’s contentions regarding the district

court’s jurisdiction and defendant Mack’s waiver of his right to reply to the action.

      AFFIRMED.

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