Leo

*61 MEMORANDUM **

Jack Leo, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1988 action alleging prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by failing to protect him from assault by other inmates. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, see DeGrassi v. City of Glendora, 207 F.3d 636 , 644 (9th Cir.2000), and we affirm.

Leo’s action is subject to a one-year statute of limitations. See Maldonado v. Harris, 370 F.3d 945, 954-55 (9th Cir. 2004). Leo’s claims are time-barred because he filed his complaint more than one year after he became aware of the termination of his administrative process, and he failed to show any other circumstances that would toll the statute of limitations. See Cervantes v. City of San Diego, 5 F.3d 1273, 1275 (9th Cir.1993) (describing the circumstances under which equitable tolling applies).

We decline to consider the new arguments and evidence Leo presented for the first time in his reply brief. See United States v. Wright, 215 F.3d 1020 , 1030 n. 3 (9th Cir.2000) (declining to consider arguments raised for the first time in a reply brief); United States…