GRAY v. BRIGHT (2019)

MEMORANDUM **

California state prisoner Gregory Lee Gray appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment and dismissal order in his action alleging federal claims arising out of the denial of his request for a single cell. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Mendoza v. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of L.A., 824 F.3d 1148, 1149 (9th Cir. 2016) (summary judgment); Hamilton v. Brown, 630 F.3d 889, 892 (9th Cir. 2011) (dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Gray’s medical deliberate indifference claim because, even assuming Gray properly exhausted his administrative remedies, Gray failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants were deliberately indifferent in treating his snoring by not giving him a single cell. See Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1057-60 (9th Cir. 2004) (a prison official is deliberately indifferent only if he or she knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Gray’s Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) failure-to-accommodate claim because Gray failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants discriminated against him because of his disability. See Simmons v. Navajo County, Ariz., 609 F.3d 1011, 1021-22 (9th Cir. 2010) (discussing elements of a failure-to-accommodate claim under ADA), overruled on other grounds by Castro v. County of Los Angeles, 833 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc).

The district court properly dismissed Gray’s failure-to-protect claim because Gray failed to allege facts sufficient to show that the denial of Gray’s request for a single cell posed a substantial risk of serious harm that defendants knew of and disregarded. See Lemire v. Cal. Dep’t of Corr. & Rehab., 726 F.3d 1062, 1074 (9th Cir. 2013) (elements of a failure-to-protect claim).

We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

AFFIRMED.