Douglas A. Hirano, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant. v. Glenn Kakuda, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

15 F.3d 1085 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Douglas A. HIRANO, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant. v. Glenn KAKUDA, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee. Nos. 92-15076, 92-15091, 92-15854 and 92-16398. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Jan. 18, 1994. Before: BROWNING, NORRIS, and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Plaintiff Hirano is an inmate at the Halawa Medium Security Correctional Facility in Hawaii. Hirano's section 1983 action arises from an incident on October 28, 1989. Following trial, the district court entered judgment in favor of Hirano against defendant Kakuda, a correctional officer. 1 3 On October 18, 1989, Kakuda confiscated an expandable file folder from Hirano in the prison law library. Hirano filed a grievance against Kakuda for wrongfully confiscating the folder and for failing to give Hirano a receipt for it. Believing that Hirano had stretched the truth by not reporting in his grievance that the folder was an…