Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-15 18:00:31.643222+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       MAY 15 2023
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD FERRY,                                  No.    21-35959

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 3:18-cv-00153-AC

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
KEVIN DOOHAN, Washington County
Community Corrections (WCCC) Post-
Prison Supervision Officer; JOE SIMICH,
WCCC, Assistant Director; STEVE
BERGER, WCCC, Director; MICHAEL
WU, Chair, Oregon Board of Parole and
Post-Prison Supervision (BPPPS); BROOKE
VICE, WCCO PPO; NELLIE MCDONALD,
WCCO PPO; JOY LEWIS, WCCO PPO;
DOES, John and Jane, 1-20,

                Defendants-Appellees.

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                           for the District of Oregon
               Marco A. Hernandez, Chief District Judge, Presiding

                             Submitted May 11, 2023**

Before: FERNANDEZ, SILVERMAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      Richard Ferry appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in

favor of defendants in Ferry’s action alleging violations of his civil rights. We

have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. See Ochoa v.

Public Consulting Group, Inc., 48 F.4th 1102, 1106 (9th Cir. 2022). We affirm.

      The district court properly dismissed Ferry’s First and Fourteenth

Amendment claims arising from the Oregon Parole Board’s requirement that Ferry

take periodic polygraph examinations, because Ferry failed to allege that he had

been forced to incriminate himself in a subsequent criminal proceeding. Chavez v.

Robinson, 12 F.4th 978, 982 (9th Cir. 2021), citing Chavez v. Martin, 538 U.S.

760, 770 (2003) (plurality opinion) (probationer could not bring a civil action

against the government under § 1983 for a violation of his Fifth Amendment right

against self-incrimination because he did not make a statement that was used in a

criminal proceeding).

      The district court properly granted summary judgment on Ferry’s First

Amendment retaliation claims, because Ferry failed to establish that the defendants

ordered Ferry to resume treatment only after Ferry filed this lawsuit. See

Brodheim v. Cry, 584 F.3d 1262, 1269 (9th Cir. 2009) (elements of retaliation

claims); Allen v. Iranon, 283 F.3d 1070, 1077 (9th Cir. 2002) (proximity in time

can be circumstantial evidence of retaliatory motive). The record does not support

Ferry’s arguments that he and the defendants had an agreement to pause treatment,

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or that he had been discharged from treatment before he filed this lawsuit.

      The district court did not abuse its discretion when it struck Ferry’s proposed

second amended complaint, because Ferry had failed to obtain before filing either

the court’s leave, or his opponents’ written consent. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a)(2).

      AFFIRMED.

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