United States Ninth Circuit

Sua sponte dismissal of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 prison condition claims is affirmed over claims that California regulations governing prison administration create enforceable Fourteenth Amendment liberty interests, and thus, dismissal on that basis was erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/17/2006
• Decided 08/07/2006
• Published 08/07/2006

Judges

• Before J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sanford Svetcov and Maria V. Morris, Appointed Pro Bono Counsel, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant James Myron., James Myron, Corcoran, CA, pro se., Barbara L. Herwig and Teal Luthy Miller, Attorneys, Appellate Staff Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for intervenor United States of America.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas S. Patterson, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Jennifer G. Perkell, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the Defendants-Appellees.