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Abraham SOTO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Raul LOPEZ, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 12-55093.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted May 13, 2014.
    
    Filed May 23, 2014.
    Abraham Soto, Corcoran, CA, pro se.
    Tracy Casadio, Esquire, Deputy Federal Public Defender, FPDCA-Federal Public Defender’s Office, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    David Zarmi, Esquire, Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent-Appel-lee.
    Before: CLIFTON, BEA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

California state prisoner Abraham Soto appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition as untimely. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We review de novo a district court’s decision to dismiss a § 2254 petition as untimely, see Chaffer v. Prosper, 592 F.3d 1046, 1048 (9th Cir.2010), and we affirm.

Soto contends that he is entitled to equitable tolling because he lacked access to the law library and his legal materials while he was in administrative segregation and during a prison transfer. Soto has not demonstrated that these ordinary prison limitations amounted to an extraordinary circumstance beyond his control preventing him from timely filing his federal habeas petition. See Ramirez v. Yates, 571 F.3d 993, 998 (9th Cir.2009) (petitioner not entitled to equitable tolling “simply because he remained in administrative segregation and had limited access to” law library and copy machine). Significantly, Soto filed a second state habeas petition with the California Supreme Court before the federal statute of limitations expired. See id. (observing that petitioner was able to file “other substantial legal filings” during time in which he was allegedly denied law library access). Moreover, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Soto an evidentia-ry hearing. See Roberts v. Marshall, 627 F.3d 768, 773 (9th Cir.2010) (district court properly denied petitioner’s request for an evidentiary hearing on equitable tolling in part because the petitioner filed several state habeas petitions containing the same arguments presented in his federal habeas petition).

Although we granted Soto’s request for a certificate of appealability on the issue of whether the statute of limitations period was tolled during the pendency of Soto’s May 29, 2009, state habeas petition filed in the California Supreme Court, he neglected to address this issue in his opening or reply briefs. Consequently, Soto has waived any argument that he is entitled to statutory tolling. Womack v. Del Papa, 497 F.3d 998, 1004 (9th Cir.2007).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.