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Younger v. Wielenga

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Jun 18, 2019
No. 18-55948 (9th Cir. Jun. 18, 2019)

Opinion

No. 18-55948

06-18-2019

DAVID MICHAEL YOUNGER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. G. WIELENGA, Captain for S.B. County Sheriffs Dept., in his/her individual capacity; et al., Defendants-Appellees.


NOT FOR PUBLICATION

D.C. No. 5:15-cv-01964-SVW-JC MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding Before: CANBY, GRABER, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

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

David Michael Younger, a federal prisoner and former pretrial detainee, appeals pro se from the district court's summary judgment in his civil rights action brought under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), alleging that defendants' surveillance policy violated his rights to bodily privacy and religious freedom. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Torres v. City of Madera, 648 F.3d 1119, 1123 (9th Cir. 2011). We affirm.

To the extent that a Bivens remedy exists for Younger's Fourteenth Amendment right to bodily privacy claim and First Amendment free exercise claim, the district court properly granted summary judgment because Younger failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants' policy was not reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. See Turner v. Safley, 428 U.S. 78, 89-91 (1987) (stating that a regulation impinging on First Amendment rights is valid if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests and articulating the factors for determining whether a prison regulation is reasonably related to a legitimate penological interest); Byrd v. Maricopa Cty. Bd. of Supervisors, 845 F.3d 919, 923 (9th Cir. 2017) (applying Turner rational relationship test to pretrial detainee's right to bodily privacy claim, and explaining that prison policy that allows for infrequent, irregular, or from a distance observation may not constitute a constitutional violation); see also Ziglar v. Abassi, 137 S. Ct. 1843, 1857 (2017) (cautioning against further extensions of Bivens to "new" contexts and requiring a special factors analysis before extending the Bivens remedy).

We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

AFFIRMED.


Summaries of

Younger v. Wielenga

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
Jun 18, 2019
No. 18-55948 (9th Cir. Jun. 18, 2019)
Case details for

Younger v. Wielenga

Case Details

Full title:DAVID MICHAEL YOUNGER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. G. WIELENGA, Captain for…

Court:UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

Date published: Jun 18, 2019

Citations

No. 18-55948 (9th Cir. Jun. 18, 2019)

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