Bloodworth

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiffs, current and former police officers of the City of Phoenix Police Department (“Department”), appeal the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of Defendants, the city of Phoenix and other current and former members of *681 the Department, on Plaintiffs’ due process and equal protection claims. We affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the factual and procedural history of this case, we do not recount it here.

I

Plaintiffs claim that Defendants deprived them, and conspired to deprive them, of their procedural due process rights when Defendants conducted an internal, Department investigation of purchases, sales, and transfers of assault rifles by police personnel that resulted in disciplinary action. To demonstrate a violation of their procedural due process rights, Plaintiffs must show that Defendants deprived them of a constitutionally protected property or liberty interest. See Bd. of Regents of State Colls. v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 569 , 92 S.Ct. 2701 , 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972); Llamas v. Butte Cmty. Coll. Dist., 238 F.3d 1123 , 1128 (9th Cir.2001). The district court properly granted summary judgment on Plaintiffs’ due process…