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Roosevelt REED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Eleanor VERNELL; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 15-35497
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted August 9, 2017 
    
    Filed August 17, 2017
    Roosevelt Reed, Pro Se
    Haley Beach, Assistant Attorney General, State Attorney General’s Office—Corrections Division, Olympia, WA, for Defendants-Appellees
    Before: SCHROEDER, TASHIMA, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Washington state prisoner Roosevelt Reed appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging due process violations by prison officials. 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 on Reed’s procedural due process claim concerning deductions from his prison postage subaccount because Reed failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether he lacked an adequate post-deprivation remedy under Washington law. See Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 533, 104 S.Ct. 3194, 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984) (“[A] ... deprivation of property by a state employee does not constitute a violation of the procedural requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment if a meaningful postdeprivation remedy for the loss is available.”); Wright v. Riveland, 219 F.3d 905, 918 (9th Cir. 2000) (holding that Washington State Department of Corrections’ grievance process and Washington State’s tort claim process are adequate post-deprivation remedies for allegedly improper deductions from a prisoner’s account).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Reed’s substantive due process claim because Reed failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether defendants’ conduct was egregious or shocks the conscience. County of Sacramento v. Lewis, 523 U.S. 833, 845-49, 118 S.Ct. 1708, 140 L.Ed.2d 1043 (1998) (substantive due process challenge must establish “egregious official conduct” that “shocks the conscience”).

Defendants’ request, set forth in the answering brief, that this court determine that the appeal is frivolous and constitutes a strike under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2), (g), is denied.

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth-Circuit Rule 36-3.