ANTHONY LEWIS V. M. COLVIN, No. 17-15501 (9th Cir. 2017)

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FILED DEC 22 2017 NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT ANTHONY GERARD LEWIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 17-15501 D.C. No. 5:15-cv-03335-BLF v. MEMORANDUM* M. COLVIN, Senior Librarian; K. J. ALLEN, Appeals Examiner; S. MIRANDA, L.T.A., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Beth Labson Freeman, District Judge, Presiding Submitted December 18, 2017** Before: WALLACE, SILVERMAN and BYBEE, Circuit Judges. Anthony Gerard Lewis, a California state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). defendants denied him access to the courts. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Jones v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., 968 F.2d 937, 940 (9th Cir. 1992). We affirm. The district court properly granted summary judgment on Lewis’s access-tocourts claim because Lewis failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether he suffered any actual injury. See Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 348-51 (1996) (setting forth the elements of an access-to-courts claim and the actual injury requirement). AFFIRMED. 2

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