MEMORANDUM ***
Jason Lacey, a California state prisoner, 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 Cir.2004), and we affirm.
The district court properly granted summary judgment for defendants because Lacey failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants were deliberately indifferent to his pain and respiratory condition. See id. at 1057-60 (deliberate indifference is a high legál standard, and is met only if the prison official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to the prisoner’s health); Jackson v. McIntosh, 90 F.3d 330, 332 (9th Cir.1996) (to establish that a difference of medical opinion amounted to deliberate indifference, a prisoner “must show that the course of treatment the doctors chose was medically unacceptable under the circumstances” and “that they chose this course in conscious disregard of an excessive risk to [the prisoner’s] health”).
*402We reject Lacey’s contentions concerning ineffective assistance of counsel. See Nicholson v. Rushen, 767 F.2d 1426, 1427 (9th Cir.1985) (per curiam) (“Generally, a plaintiff in a civil case has no right to effective assistance of counsel.”).
AFFIRMED.