Shields

MEMORANDUM

Ramiro Camacho, Jr., a Nevada state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgement dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging various constitutional violations in connection with the interruption of his prayers on one occasion. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Jacobson v. AEG Capital Corp., 50 F.3d 1493, 1496 (9th Cir.1995), and we affirm.

The district court properly concluded that Camacho failed to establish a prima facie claim that his religious beliefs were substantially burdened. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000ce-2(b) (requiring that a plaintiff must produce “prima facie evidence to support a claim alleging a violation of the Free Exercise Clause or a violation of the [Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act]”); Canell v. Lightner, 143 F.3d 1210, 1215 (9th Cir.1998) (holding that “ ‘relatively short-term and sporadic’ ” intrusions on an inmate’s prayer activities did not constitute a substantial burden on inmate’s free exercise of his religion).

The district court properly determined that Camacho failed to produce any evidence creating an issue of fact pertaining to the alleged violation of his Eighth…