Jaime Arias-Maldonado v. D. K. Sisto

MEMORANDUM

Jaime Arias-Maldonado, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. We review de novo a district court’s summary judgment, Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004), and dismissal under the screening provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, Wilhelm v. Rotman, 680 F.3d 1113, 1118 (9th Cir.2012). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Arias-Maldonado’s Equal Protection Clause claim because Arias-Maldonado failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants acted with a racially discriminatory intent in transferring Arias-Maldonado to a prison outside California. See United States v. Coleman, 24 F.3d 37, 38-39 (9th Cir.1994) (“ ‘[E]ven if a neutral law has a disproportionately adverse impact on a racial minority, it is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause only if that impact can be traced to a discriminatory purpose.’ ” (citation omitted)).

Dismissal of Arias-Maldonado’s claim that defendants failed to respond to his emergency grievances was proper because…