Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-07 17:01:17.034494+00
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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION
                                                                             MAR 7 2024
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                          U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TIMOTHY DEANORE WILKINS,                         No.    22-55745

              Plaintiff-Appellant,               D.C. No.
                                                 2:21-cv-03383-VAP-E
 v.

CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS; JONES,                    MEMORANDUM*
Correctional Sergeant, individual; LUND,
Correctional Officer, individual; STEVE
R. BRENNEMAN, Correctional Officer,
individual; ANGELO DOLIDA,
Correctional Officer, individual; A.
MORENO, Correctional Officer, in his
individual capacity; D. MANER,
Correctional Officer, in his individual
capacity; JACOBS, Correctional Officer,
in his individual capacity; LESLIE
KINGSLEY, Correctional Officer, in her
individual capacity,

              Defendants-Appellees.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Central District of California
                Virginia A. Phillips, Chief District Judge, Presiding

      *
        This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
                              Submitted March 7, 2024**
                               San Francisco, California

Before: O’SCANNLAIN, FERNANDEZ, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges

      Timothy Wilkins appeals pro se from the district court’s grant of summary

judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights action alleging violations of the First

and Eighth Amendments. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We

review de novo,1 and we affirm.

      The district court did not err in granting summary judgment on Wilkins’s

civil rights claims because Wilkins failed to exhaust his administrative remedies

and failed to raise a triable issue of material fact as to whether administrative

remedies were effectively unavailable. See Draper v. Rosario, 836 F.3d 1072,

1079–80 (9th Cir. 2016). Even considering Wilkins’s rejected communications to

the district court and later cases alleging retaliation,2 the record lacks evidence that

      **
         The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without
oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      1
          Albino v. Baca, 747 F.3d 1162, 1168 (9th Cir. 2014) (en banc).
      2
         This Court may take judicial notice of legal proceedings. See United States
ex rel. Robinson Rancheria Citizens Council v. Borneo, Inc., 971 F.2d 244, 248
(9th Cir. 1992). Wilkins’s request for judicial notice of Wilkins v. Holcolm, No.
22-cv-3608-SVW (C.D. Cal. Oct. 24, 2022) and Wilkins v. Samuels, No.
22-cv-2434-SVW (C.D. Cal. Oct. 24, 2022), and his rejected filings in the district
court, is granted. Appellees’ motion for judicial notice of the dockets and
dismissal orders in Holcolm and Samuels is also granted.

                                            2                                       22-55745
Wilkins actually feared retaliation for using the administrative grievance process,

let alone that any fear of retaliation was objectively reasonable.3

      AFFIRMED.

      3
          See McBride v. Lopez, 807 F.3d 982, 987–88 (9th Cir. 2015).

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