DocketNumber: 20-55597
Filed Date: 8/6/2021
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 8/6/2021
FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION AUG 6 2021 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT LUKE WAINE CAINES, Jr., No. 20-55597 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 5:19-cv-00666-PA-KS v. M. INTERIAN, Dr., DDS, MEMORANDUM* Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Percy Anderson, District Judge, Presiding Submitted August 4, 2021** San Francisco, California Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, and HAWKINS and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges. California state prisoner Luke Waine Caines, Jr. appeals pro se from the district court’s dismissal of (1) his claim under42 U.S.C. § 1983
alleging deliberate indifference to a serious medical need with prejudice and (2) his * 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). associated state law claims without prejudice. We have jurisdiction under28 U.S.C. § 1291
. We review the dismissal of Caines’s federal claim de novo, see Kennedy v. S. Cal. Edison, Co.,268 F.3d 763
, 767 (9th Cir. 2001), and for abuse of discretion the district court’s decision to decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over his state law claims after dismissing his federal claim. Costanich v. Dep’t of Soc. & Health Servs.,627 F.3d 1101
, 1107 (9th Cir. 2010). We affirm. The district court properly dismissed Caines’s claim of deliberate indifference to a serious medical need because Caines did not allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim. It is not enough to allege that Interian should have known that Caines suffered from a bone spicule and oroantral fistula—to sustain a claim the prison official must “know[] of and disregard[] 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 harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.” Farmer v. Brennan,511 U.S. 825
, 837 (1994). Nor does an official violate a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights when prescribing a medication that he has no reason to believe will result in an adverse reaction. Toguchi v. Chung,391 F.3d 1051
, 1059–60 (9th Cir. 2004). Finally, Caines’s allegations of a delay in surgery, without any evidence that the delay “caused 2 substantial harm,” cannot support a deliberate indifference claim. Wood v. Housewright,900 F.2d 1332
, 1335 (9th Cir. 1990). The district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing Caines’s state law claims for lack of supplemental jurisdiction after dismissing his constitutional claim. See San Pedro Hotel Co. v. City of Los Angeles,159 F.3d 470
, 478 & n. 12 (9th Cir. 1998) (quoting28 U.S.C. § 1367
(c)). Even if we were to construe Caines’s claims as constitutional claims, as he argues, the district court was correct to dismiss them. Negligence is not a sufficient ground for a constitutional violation, Toguchi,391 F.3d at 1057
, and Caines’s alleged “mental and emotional injury,” does not rise to the level of a “serious medical need.” Doty v. Cty. of Lassen,37 F.3d 540
, 546 & n.3 (9th Cir. 1994) (mental health conditions must also reach the requisite level of seriousness). AFFIRMED. 3
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