Jenghiz Stewart v. Joseph Arpaio

MEMORANDUM

Arizona state prisoner Jenghiz K. Stewart appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal claims related to the deprivation of legal materials in a county-jail. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo a dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, Hamilton v. Brown, 630 F.3d 889, 892 (9th Cir. 2011), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Stewart’s access-to-courts claim because Stewart failed to allege facts sufficient to show that he suffered an actual injury. See Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 348-49, 352-53 , 116 S.Ct. 2174 , 135 L.Ed.2d 606 (1996) (an access-to-courts claim requires a plaintiff to show that defendants’ conduct caused actual injury to a non-frivolous legal claim).

The district court properly dismissed Stewart’s First Amendment retaliation claim because Stewart failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim for relief. See Jones v. Williams, 791 F.3d 1023, 1035 (9th Cir. 2015) (elements of retaliation claim in a correctional context); Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341-42 (9th Cir. 2010) (although pro se pleadings are liberally construed, a plaintiff…