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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BRYAN E. RANSOM,

Plaintiff,

v.

M. JOHNSON, et al.,

Defendants.

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CASE NO. 1:05-cv-00086-OWW-GSA PC

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR

PUBLICATION

(Doc. 74)

Plaintiff Bryan E. Ransom (“Plaintiff”) is a state prisoner proceeding pro se and in forma

pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. On September 12, 2007, Plaintiff

filed a motion requesting that the findings and recommendations, issued following the screening of

Plaintiff’s amended complaint and filed on March 5, 2007, be published.

First, the findings and recommendations and order adopting do not stand for the proposition

that as a matter of law, prisoners have a liberty interest in remaining free from the Security Housing

Unit, as asserted by Plaintiff in support of his motion. Claims may be screened out only if the Court

can find they fail as a matter of law, which it could not do based on Plaintiff’s factual allegations.

Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a); Erickson v. Pardus, 127 S.Ct. 2197, 2200 (2007); Alvarez v. Hill, 2008 WL

659570, No. 06-35068, *3 (9th Cir. Mar. 13, 2008). An assumption of the existence of a liberty

interest for screening purposes is not the same as a finding of the existence of a liberty interest as a

matter of law.

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Second, and in any event, decisions on publication rest with the publisher, not with the Court.

Plaintiff’s motion is HEREBY DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: April 14, 2008 /s/ Oliver W. Wanger 

emm0d6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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