Alameida

Johnson v. Alameida

Good Law
249 F. App'x 518
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitSeptember 27, 2007No. 06-16414California228 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Eric Johnson, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that prison classification regulations do not specifically address the needs of *519 transgender inmates in violation of the Eighth Amendment. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Johnson did not controvert defendants’ evidence that sexual orientation is taken into account when classifying and placing inmates, and Johnson conceded that whenever he raised safety concerns, prison staff took action to protect him. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 847 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) (“prison official may be held liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying humane conditions of confinement only if he knows that inmates face a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it.”). Moreover, prisoners have no constitutional right to a particular classification status. See Moody v. Daggett, 429…

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