Case Name: Eric MIKOTA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Daniel TENNANT, Lt.; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2002-08-15
Citations: 44 F. App'x 798
Docket Number: No. 01-35917; D.C. No. CV-01-05023-WFN
Parties: Eric MIKOTA, Plaintiff—Appellant, v. Daniel TENNANT, Lt.; et al., Defendants—Appellees.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 44
Pages: 798–799

Head Matter:
Eric MIKOTA, Plaintiff—Appellant, v. Daniel TENNANT, Lt.; et al., Defendants—Appellees.
No. 01-35917.
D.C. No. CV-01-05023-WFN.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Aug. 12, 2002.
Decided Aug. 15, 2002.
Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, TASHIMA and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Washington state prisoner Eric Mikota appeals pro se the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging prison officials denied him due process when they punished him with 10 days of "isolation" for possessing tobacco and matches. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court's dismissal for failure to state a claim. Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1193, 1194 (9th Cir.1998) (order). We affirm.
Mikota does not allege in his complaint that his isolation "impose[d] an 'atypical and significant hardship . in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life,' " Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 448 (9th Cir.2000) (quoting Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 484, 115 S.Ct. 2293, 132 L.Ed.2d 418 (1995)), and Mikota declined the district court's invitation to amend his complaint. Consequently, the district court properly determined that Mikota failed to state a claim because he did not allege a liberty interest in being free from disei-plinary "isolation." See Duffy v. Riveland, 98 F.3d 447, 457 (9th Cir.1996).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as may be provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.