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Draper v. Garcia

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Oct 26, 2018
No. 17-16950 (9th Cir. Oct. 26, 2018)

Opinion

No. 17-16950

10-26-2018

JOHN CLINT DRAPER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. A. GARCIA, Defendant-Appellee.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

D.C. No. 2:16-cv-01917-GEB-CKD MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
Garland E. Burrell, Jr., District Judge, Presiding Before: SILVERMAN, GRABER, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.

California state prisoner John Clint Draper appeals pro se from the district court's summary judgment for failure to exhaust administrative remedies in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging Eighth Amendment violations. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Williams v. Paramo, 775 F.3d 1182, 1191 (9th Cir. 2015). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Draper did not exhaust his administrative remedies or raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to him. See Ross v. Blake, 136 S. Ct. 1850, 1858-60 (2016) (describing the limited circumstances under which administrative remedies are deemed unavailable); Woodford v. Ngo, 548 U.S. 81, 90 (2006) ("[P]roper exhaustion of administrative remedies . . . means using all steps that the agency holds out, and doing so properly (so that the agency addresses the issues on the merits)." (citation, internal quotation marks, and emphasis omitted)).

The district court did not abuse its discretion by granting summary judgment without allowing Draper to conduct additional discovery because Draper failed to show what material facts would have been discovered that would have precluded summary judgment. See Klingele v. Eikenberry, 849 F.2d 409, 412 (9th Cir. 1988) (setting forth standard of review and recognizing that "[t]he burden is on the nonmoving party . . . to show what material facts would be discovered that would preclude summary judgment").

We reject as without merit Draper's contentions that the district court denied him due process and equal protection.

We do not consider arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

Draper's requests to augment the record, set forth in his opening brief, and for appointment of counsel, set forth in his reply brief, are denied.

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Draper v. Garcia

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Oct 26, 2018
No. 17-16950 (9th Cir. Oct. 26, 2018)
Case details for

Draper v. Garcia

Case Details

Full title:JOHN CLINT DRAPER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. A. GARCIA, Defendant-Appellee.

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Oct 26, 2018

Citations

No. 17-16950 (9th Cir. Oct. 26, 2018)