Case Name: Nathaniel James DAVIS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott Alex SPEER, Lt., Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-07-12
Citations: 478 F. App'x 443
Docket Number: No. 11-35002
Parties: Nathaniel James DAVIS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott Alex SPEER, Lt., Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 478
Pages: 443–444

Head Matter:
Nathaniel James DAVIS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Scott Alex SPEER, Lt., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 11-35002.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 26, 2012.
Filed July 12, 2012.
Nathaniel James Davis, Jr. Forks, WA, pro se.
Ohad Michael Lowy, Assistant Attorney General, AGWA-Office of the Washington Attorney General, Olympia, WA, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before: SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Washington state prisoner Nathaniel James Davis, Jr., appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging various constitutional violations. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Knievel v. ESPN, 393 F.3d 1068, 1072 (9th Cir.2005). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Davis's claim that defendant Speer violated his due process rights in connection with a disciplinary infraction for failure to provide a urine sample because Davis failed to allege facts sufficient to show that a protected liberty interest was at stake. See Serrano v. Francis, 345 F.3d 1071, 1078 (9th Cir.2003) (due process protections "adhere only when the disciplinary action implicates a protected liberty interest in some unexpected [manner] or imposes an atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life" (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).
The district court properly dismissed Davis's equal protection claim because Davis failed to allege facts sufficient to support his claim. See Monteiro v. Tempe Union High Sch. Dist., 158 F.3d 1022, 1026 (9th Cir.1998) (equal protection claim "must plead intentional unlawful discrimination or allege facts that are at least susceptible of an inference of discriminatory intent").
The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Davis leave to amend his complaint a third time because amendment would have been futile. See All-waste, Inc. v. Hecht, 65 F.3d 1523, 1530 (9th Cir.1995) (district court does not abuse its discretion to deny leave to amend where it "could reasonably conclude that further amendment would be futile").
Davis's remaining contentions are unpersuasive.
We do not consider allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n. 2 (9th Cir.2009) (per curiam).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.