David Riggins v. Dan Pacholke

MEMORANDUM

Washington state prisoner David Rig-gins, a.k.a. Dawud Halisi Malik, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging due process violations. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Smith v. Noonan, 992 F.2d 987, 989 (9th Cir.1993), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Riggins failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether his placement in administrative segregation, reclassification to maximum security, and placement in the Intensive Management Unit implicated a protected liberty interest. See Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 484 , 115 S.Ct. 2293 , 132 L.Ed.2d 418 (1995) (liberty interest arising from state law or policies “will be generally limited to freedom from restraint which ... imposes atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”); Meachum v. Fano, 427 U.S. 215, 225 , 96 S.Ct. 2532 , 49 L.Ed.2d 451 (1976) (inmate’s transfer to a maximum-security facility with much less favorable conditions was “within the normal limits or range of custody which the conviction has authorized…