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.  On Remand From The Supreme Court of the United States

Filed December 2, 2009

Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.*

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

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

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COUNSEL

John R. Kroger, Attorney General, Jerome Lidz, Solicitor General, and Rolf C. Moan, Supreme Court Coordinator, Salem, Oregon, filed the post-Supreme Court remand brief for the appellant. 15748 PHILLIPS v. HUST Frank Marvin Phillips, pro se, Salem, Oregon, filed the brief for the appellee.

OPINION

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We consider whether a prison librarian is entitled to quali- fied immunity from suit alleging a constitutional tort for hin- dering an inmate’s ability to comb-bind a petition for a writ of certiorari to the…