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Summary: NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 10 2020 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT COLBY LEE APLIN, No. 19-35197 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 3:18-cv-00434-MO v. MEMORANDUM* MCIJ; et al., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Michael W. Mosman, District Judge, Presiding Submitted April 7, 2020** Before: TASHIMA, BYBEE, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges. Oregon state prisoner Colby Lee Aplin app
Summary: NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 10 2020 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT COLBY LEE APLIN, No. 19-35197 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 3:18-cv-00434-MO v. MEMORANDUM* MCIJ; et al., Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Michael W. Mosman, District Judge, Presiding Submitted April 7, 2020** Before: TASHIMA, BYBEE, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges. Oregon state prisoner Colby Lee Aplin appe..
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 10 2020
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
COLBY LEE APLIN, No. 19-35197
Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 3:18-cv-00434-MO
v.
MEMORANDUM*
MCIJ; et al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Oregon
Michael W. Mosman, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted April 7, 2020**
Before: TASHIMA, BYBEE, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
Oregon state prisoner Colby Lee Aplin appeals pro se from the district
court’s summary judgment in her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and
state law claims related to her mail arising from her pretrial detention in
Multnomah County jail. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review
*
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).
de novo. Albino v. Baca,
747 F.3d 1162, 1168 (9th Cir. 2014) (en banc). We
affirm.
In her opening brief, plaintiff fails to raise, and therefore has waived, any
challenge to the district court’s summary judgment on her claims challenging the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office’s (“MCSO”) mail policy’s restriction of
content on envelopes. See Indep. Towers of Wash. v. Washington,
350 F.3d 925,
929 (9th Cir. 2003) (“[W]e will not consider any claims that were not actually
argued in appellant’s opening brief.”); Acosta-Huerta v. Estelle,
7 F.3d 139, 144
(9th Cir. 1993) (issues not supported by argument in pro se appellant’s opening
brief are waived).
The district court properly granted summary judgment on plaintiff’s claims
challenging the MCSO’s mail policy’s other restrictions because plaintiff failed to
exhaust her administrative remedies and failed to raise a genuine dispute of
material fact as to whether administrative remedies were effectively unavailable to
her. See Ross v. Blake,
136 S. Ct. 1850, 1856, 1858-60 (2016) (explaining that an
inmate must exhaust such administrative remedies as are available before bringing
suit, and describing limited circumstances in which administrative remedies are
unavailable); Woodford v. Ngo,
548 U.S. 81, 90 (2006) (“[P]roper exhaustion of
administrative remedies . . . means using all steps that the agency holds out, and
doing so properly (so that the agency addresses the issues on the merits).” (citation,
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internal quotation marks, and emphasis omitted)).
We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued
in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on
appeal, including plaintiff’s contentions that defendants violated her right of access
to the courts and right to counsel. See Padgett v. Wright,
587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2
(9th Cir. 2009).
AFFIRMED.
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