United States Ninth Circuit

A district court's sua sponte dismissal of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 prison condition claims is affirmed where: 1) classification of plaintiff at a "level IV" prison rather than at a "level III" prison did not present an "atypical and significant hardship" for purposes of creating a liberty interest protected under the Fourteenth Amendment; 2) a California regulation governing prison publications does not create a liberty interest; and 3) plaintiff's classification did not violate the Eighth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/17/2006
• Decided 02/07/2007
• Published 02/07/2007

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.