Brian Edwards v. M. McDonald

MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Brian Darnell Edwards appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment and judgment as a matter of law in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging constitutional violations. 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 affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Edwards’s access-to-courts claim because Edwards failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants caused an actual injury to a non-frivolous claim. See Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 348-49, 354-55 , 116 S.Ct. 2174 , 135 L.Ed.2d 606 (1996) (setting forth the elements of an access-to-courts claim and actual injury requirement).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Edwards’s Fourth Amendment claim because prisoners have no Fourth Amendment right of privacy in their cells. See Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 530 , 104 S.Ct. 3194 , 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984) (“Fourth Amendment’s prohibi tion on unreasonable searches does not apply in prison cells”).

We cannot review Edwards’s contentions challenging the district court’s judgment as a matter of…