FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION JAN 25 2012
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
KIRK DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, No. 10-17587
Plaintiff - Appellant, D.C. No. 2:08-cv-00878-LKK-
GGH
v.
T. FELKER; CALIFORNIA MEMORANDUM *
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
AND REHABILITATION,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of California
Lawrence K. Karlton, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted January 17, 2012 **
Before: LEAVY, TALLMAN, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
California state prisoner Kirk Douglas Williams appeals pro se from the
district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging denial of
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
**
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
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access to courts. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de
novo a dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447
(9th Cir. 2000), and for an abuse of discretion the denial of leave to amend, Chodos
v. West Publ’g Co., 292 F.3d 992, 1003 (9th Cir. 2002). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Williams’s action because he failed to
allege an actual injury from defendants’ enforcement of a regulation concerning
the processing of inmates’ non-emergency grievances. See Lewis v. Casey, 518
U.S. 343, 348-49 (1996) (actual injury for access-to-courts claim requires showing
that defendants hindered a non-frivolous legal claim); Ivey v. Bd. of Regents of the
Univ. of Alaska, 673 F.2d 266, 268 (9th Cir. 1982) (even liberal interpretation of
pro se complaint “may not supply [the] essential elements of the claim that were
not initially pled”).
The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Williams further
leave to amend his complaint because he failed to cure the deficiencies identified
by the court despite multiple opportunities to do so. See Chodos, 292 F.3d at 1003
(discretion to deny leave to amend is particularly broad where plaintiff has had
prior opportunities to amend).
Williams’s remaining contentions are unpersuasive.
AFFIRMED.
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