Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2017-10-02 20:00:56.371355+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        OCT 2 2017
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

    ANTHONY MOORE,                              No.    14-16169

      Petitioner-Appellant,                     D.C. No.
                                                4:14-cv-01987-CKJ-EJM
       v.

     LOUIS WINN,                                MEMORANDUM*

      Respondent-Appellee.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                            for the District of Arizona
                   Cindy K. Jorgenson, District Judge, Presiding

                    Argued and Submitted September 11, 2017
                            San Francisco, California

Before: KOZINSKI and FRIEDLAND, Circuit Judges, and BENNETT,** District
Judge.

      Anthony Moore, a prisoner convicted in state court but housed in federal

prison, appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing his pro se petition for

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
            The Honorable Mark W. Bennett, United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Iowa, sitting by designation.
a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241.1

      The district court erred in holding that it lacked jurisdiction on the basis that

Moore could not properly challenge the conditions of his confinement through a

habeas petition. Under Hernandez v. Campbell, 204 F.3d 861, 864 (9th Cir. 2000),

the court could review Moore’s petition because it contests the “manner, location,

or conditions of [his] sentence’s execution.” See also Harrison v. Ollison, 519

F.3d 952, 956 (9th Cir. 2008). This court’s decision in Nettles v. Grounds—which

restricts the scope of habeas jurisdiction for state prisoners—is not to the contrary.

See 830 F.3d 922, 931 (9th Cir. 2016) (noting that the court “need not address how

the standard . . . adopted here applies to relief sought by prisoners in federal

custody”).

        On remand the court must consider whether Moore’s claim is foreclosed

by 18 U.S.C. § 3625, which this court has held precludes judicial review of

“discretionary determinations” made by the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) under 18

U.S.C. § 3621. Compare Reeb v. Thomas, 636 F.3d 1224, 1227 (9th Cir. 2011)

(holding that the district court lacked jurisdiction over habeas challenge to BOP’s

individualized placement determination), with Rodriguez v. Copenhaver, 823 F.3d

1238, 1242 (9th Cir. 2016) (holding that 18 U.S.C. § 3625 does not preclude

1
 We assume without deciding that Moore’s challenge was properly brought under
28 U.S.C. § 2241, based on the understanding from oral argument that Moore is
challenging the federal Bureau of Prison’s classification system.

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claims that the BOP “acted contrary to established federal law, violated the

Constitution, or exceeded its statutory authority when it acted pursuant to 18

U.S.C. § 3621”).

VACATED and REMANDED.

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