Michael Saavedra v. L. Scribner

MEMORANDUM

Plaintiff Michael Saavedra, an inmate at Salmas Valley State Prison, sued various prison officials for alleged due process violations arising out of his placement and retention in administrative segregation and the disciplinary proceedings that followed. The district court granted summary judgment to Defendants. It held that the notice given to Saavedra for his placement in administrative segregation was constitutionally deficient, but that Defendants were entitled to qualified immunity. We affirm.

We review “questions of our own jurisdiction de novo.” Hunt v. Imperial Merchant Servs., Inc., 560 F.3d 1137, 1140 (9th Cir.2009). We review a decision to grant summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity de novo. See Bingham v. City of Manhattan Beach, 341 F.3d 939, 945 (9th Cir.2003). The doctrine of qualified immunity is a two-part test. “First, a court must decide whether the facts that a plaintiff has ... shown ... make out a violation of a constitutional right.” Pearson v. Callahan, 555 U.S. 223, 232 , 129 S.Ct. 808 , 172 L.Ed.2d 565 (2009). “Second ... the court must decide whether the right at issue was ‘clearly established’ at the time of defendant’s…