EDWARD VINCENT RAY, Jr. v. GREG SCHOO, Lieutenant at Chino Institute for Men (CIM)

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
EDWARD VINCENT RAY, Jr.,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
GREG SCHOO, Lieutenant at Chino
Institute for Men (CIM),
Defendant - Appellee.
No. 14-55205
D.C. No. 5:10-cv-00942-VAP-
PJW
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Virginia A. Phillips, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted January 21, 2015**
Before: CANBY, GOULD, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Edward Vincent Ray, Jr., appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment
dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging various constitutional violations in
connection with his housing as a layover inmate at the California Institute for Men.
FILED
FEB 2 2015
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Hebbe v.
Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341 (9th Cir. 2010) (dismissal under Fed. R. Civ.
P. 12(b)(6)). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Ray’s Eighth Amendment claims
because Ray failed to allege facts sufficient to show that defendant disregarded a
substantial risk of serious harm to Ray when he was temporarily housed outside, or
in a holding cell. See Graves v. Arpaio, 623 F.3d 1043, 1049 (9th Cir. 2010) (per
curiam) (Eighth Amendment guarantees only adequate heat, not a comfortable
temperature; “[o]ne measure of an inadequate, as opposed to merely
uncomfortable, temperature is that it poses a substantial risk of serious harm”
(citations and internal quotation marks omitted)); Hoptowit v. Ray, 682 F.2d 1237,
1258 (9th Cir. 1982), abrogated on other grounds by Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S.
472 (1995) (court may consider the length of time a prisoner must go without
benefits).
The district court properly dismissed Ray’s due process claims because Ray
failed to allege facts sufficient to identify a protected liberty or property interest of
which he was deprived. See Sandin, 515 U.S. at 486 (holding that discipline in
segregated confinement did not present the type of atypical, significant deprivation
in which a state might conceivably create a liberty interest); Ward v. Ryan, 623
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F.3d 807, 813 (9th Cir. 2010) (to establish a due process violation, an inmate must
demonstrate that he has been deprived of a protected liberty or property interest by
arbitrary government action).
We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued
in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).
AFFIRMED.
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