Bobby Daniels v. Kuzil Ruan

MEMORANDUM

Bobby Joe Daniels, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment violations arising from a disciplinary conviction for possession of an inmate-manufactured weapon. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Berg v. Popham, 412 F.3d 1122, 1125 (9th Cir.2005), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed the retaliation claim because Daniels failed to allege facts indicating that his transfer to the Security Housing Unit at California Correctional Institution “did not reasonably advance a legitimate correctional goal.” Rhodes v. Robinson, 408 F.3d 559, 568 (9th Cir.2005).

The district court properly dismissed the failure to protect claim because Daniels did not allege facts showing that defendants were “deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm.... ” Jeffers v. Gomez, 267 F.3d 895, 913 (9th Cir.2001) (per curiam).

The district court properly dismissed the due process claim challenging several aspects of the disciplinary hearing because success on this claim would necessarily imply the invalidity of…