Loehr

Loehr v. Nevada

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356 F. App'x 920
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitDecember 14, 2009No. 06-15633California215 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Brian Keith Loehr, a Nevada state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by defendants’ restrictions on his receipt of Hustler magazine. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Bahramp-our v. Lampert, 356 F.3d 969, 973 (9th Cir.2004). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Loehr’s First Amendment claim because Loehr failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact that regulations prohibiting sexually explicit material were not reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. See Mauro v. Ar-paio, 188 F.3d 1054, 1058-63 (9th Cir.1999) (en banc) (upholding a ban on sexually explicit materials depicting frontal nudity).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Loehr’s procedural due process claim because Loehr failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether he was given notice of the withholding and the right to appeal to a prison official other than the one who made the initial decision to withhold the magazine. See Krug v. Lutz, 329…

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