FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION JUL 10 2012
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
EBONE LEROY EAST, No. 11-16991
Plaintiff - Appellant, D.C. No. 1:10-cv-01053-AWI-
DLB
v.
G. KABONIC, Correctional Officer; et al., MEMORANDUM *
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of California
Anthony W. Ishii, Chief Judge, Presiding
Submitted June 26, 2012 **
Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
Former California state prisoner Ebone Leroy East appeals pro se from the
district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging due
process and Eighth Amendment violations in connection with his short term
*
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).
placement in a Behavior Management Unit (“BMU”). We have jurisdiction under
28 U.S.C. §1291. We review de novo a dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a).
Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir. 2000). We may affirm on any
ground supported by the record, Thompson v. Paul, 547 F.3d 1055, 1058-59 (9th
Cir. 2008), and we affirm.
Dismissal of East’s due process claim that he was placed in the BMU
without a hearing under California Regulations was proper because the regulation
does not create a liberty interest violated by his short term placement in the BMU.
See Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 486 (1995) (thirty day segregated
confinement does “not present the type of atypical, significant deprivation in which
a State might conceivably create a liberty interest”); Ove v. Gwinn, 264 F.3d 817,
824 (9th Cir. 2001) (“To the extent that the violation of a state law amounts to the
deprivation of a state-created interest that reaches beyond that guaranteed by the
federal Constitution, Section 1983 offers no redress.” (citations and internal
quotation marks omitted)).
The district court properly dismissed East’s Eighth Amendment claim
because East failed to allege facts showing that prison officials deprived him of the
“minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities,” or acted with deliberate
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indifference to a substantial risk of serious harm. Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S.
825, 834, 837 (1994) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued
in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009)
(per curiam).
AFFIRMED.
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