Quinton Brown v. Larry Adams
Opinion
Opinion
MEMORANDUM
Quinton P. Brown, a Washington state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal claims arising from defendants’ refusal to provide Brown with his personal religious texts. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir. 2004). We may affirm on any basis supported by the record. Columbia Pictures Indus. v. Fung, 710 F.3d 1020, 1030 (9th Cir. 2013). We affirm.
The district court properly granted summary judgment on Brown’s First Amendment claim on the basis of qualified immunity because it would not have been clear to every reasonable official that denying Brown’s religious texts for a temporary period of time would place a substantial burden on Brown’s free exercise of his religion. See Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 735, 741 , 131 S.Ct. 2074 , 179 L.Ed.2d 1149 (2011) (discussing qualified immunity and noting that a right is clearly established only if “every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).