Phillips

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FRANK MARVIN PHILLIPS,  No. 04-36021 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-01252-ALH

LYNN HUST, Library Staff,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ancer L. Haggerty, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted December 9, 2005* Portland, Oregon

Filed February 13, 2007

Before: James R. Browning, Dorothy W. Nelson, and Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Browning; Dissent by Judge O’Scannlain

*This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). COUNSEL

Hardy Myers, Attorney General, May H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Richard D. Wasserman, Attorney-in-Charge, Civil/Administrative Appeals Unit, Salem, Oregon, for the appellant.

Frank Marvin Phillips, pro se, Salem Oregon, for the appellee.

OPINION

BROWNING, Circuit Judge:

In this case, we must decide whether the arbitrary denial by prison officials of access to materials the prison routinely made available to inmates for…