Opinion
No. 16-35623
08-17-2017
SCOTT BAILEY ANDERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CS JAMES JOLLY, SCCC; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 3:15-cv-05286-BHS MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
Benjamin H. Settle, District Judge, Presiding Before: SCHROEDER, TASHIMA, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Washington state prisoner Scott Bailey Anderson appeals pro se from the district court's summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging retaliation and due process claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Brodheim v. Cry, 584 F.3d 1262, 1267 (9th Cir. 2009). We affirm.
The district court properly granted summary judgment on Anderson's retaliation claim because Anderson failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether there was an absence of legitimate correctional goals for defendants' conduct. See Pratt v. Rowland, 65 F.3d 802, 806 (9th Cir. 1995) ("[A] successful retaliation claim requires a finding that the prison authorities' retaliatory action did not advance legitimate goals of the correctional institution or was not tailored narrowly enough to achieve such goals." (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); Barnett v. Centoni, 31 F.3d 813, 816 (9th Cir. 1994) (preserving institutional order and discipline are legitimate penological objectives).
The district court properly granted summary judgment on Anderson's due process claim because Anderson did not raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether his security-level reclassification and move to a different prison implicated a protected liberty interest. See Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 483-84 (1995) (holding that a constitutionally protected liberty interest arises only when a restraint imposes an "atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life").
AFFIRMED.