Ransom

MEMORANDUM **

Bryan Edwin Ransom, a California prisoner, appeals pro se from the district courts judgment for defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging violations of his First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. We have jurisdiction pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Toguchi v. Chung, 391 F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Ransom’s claim that defendants censored him in violation of the First Amendment when they opened his mail, because, in the context of prison mail, “freedom from censorship is not equivalent to fi'eedom from inspection!!]” Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 576 , 94 S.Ct. 2963 , 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Ransom’s claim that defendants violated the Fourth Amendment when they searched and temporarily seized his mail, because they were acting to keep the prison safe and free of contraband. See Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 527 , 104 S.Ct. 3194 , 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984) (“[Prison administrators] must be ever alert to attempts to introduce drugs and other contraband into the premises. ...”); Witherow v. Paff, 52 F.3d…