Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-07-12 17:01:15.940183+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        JUL 12 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DOMINGO MONTAR-MORALES,                         No. 22-35591

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 2:20-cv-00776-TSZ

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
BISSON, Officer, Monroe Correctional
Complex,

                Defendant-Appellee,

and

JOHN P. PICKERING, Officer, Monroe
Correctional Complex; et al.,

                Defendants.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Western District of Washington
                    Thomas S. Zilly, District Judge, Presiding

                              Submitted June 26, 2023**

Before:      CANBY, S.R. THOMAS, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.

      *
             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).
      Washington state prisoner Domingo Montar-Morales appeals pro se from the

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

failure-to protect claim. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review

de novo. Cortez v. Skol, 776 F.3d 1046, 1050 (9th Cir. 2015). We affirm.

      The district court properly granted summary judgment for defendant Bisson

because Montar-Morales failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to

whether Bisson was deliberately indifferent to an excessive risk to Montar-

Morales’s safety. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 (1994) (a prison

official is deliberately indifferent only if the prison official “knows of and

disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both be

aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of

serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference”).

      AFFIRMED.

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