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affirming dismissal of action claiming that false prison disciplinary charges violated plaintiff's constitutional rights
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No. 09-16988.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed.R.App.P. 34(a)(2).
Filed August 27, 2010.
Daniel Harper, Coalinga, CA, pro se.
Stanton W. Lee, Esquire, Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Lawrence K. Karlton, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. 2:07-cv-02149-LKK-DAD.
Before: O'SCANNLAIN, HAWKINS, and IKUTA, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Daniel Harper, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants violated his constitutional rights by issuing him a false disciplinary violation. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Serra v. Lappin, 600 F.3d 1191, 1195 (9th Cir. 2010). We affirm.
Harper's action was properly dismissed because his disciplinary violation, and the associated penalties, were reversed through the prison's administrative appeal procedure, and because Harper did not allege facts suggesting that his resulting administrative segregation imposed an atypical and significant hardship. See Ramirez v. Galaza, 334 F.3d 850, 860 (9th Cir. 2003) (under the Due Process Clause, a prisoner may challenge a state disciplinary action only if it "deprives or restrains a state-created liberty interest in some `unexpected manner'" or "imposes some `atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life'" (quoting Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 484, 115 S.Ct. 2293, 132 L.Ed.2d 418 (1995))).
Harper's remaining contentions are unpersuasive.