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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        JUL 23 2021
                                                                      MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RENO FUENTES RIOS,                              No. 18-16647

                Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 1:11-cv-00667-LJO-EPG

 v.
                                                MEMORANDUM*
WARDEN, CSP-Corcoran,

                Defendants-Appellees.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Eastern District of California
                   Lawrence J. O’Neill, District Judge, Presiding

                             Submitted July 19, 2021**

Before:      SCHROEDER, SILVERMAN, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

      The abeyance order previously issued in this case (Docket Entry No. 11) is

vacated.

      California state prisoner Reno Fuentes Rios appeals pro se from the district

court’s judgment dismissing his action alleging constitutional claims arising out of

      *
             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).
parole hearings. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de

novo. Watison v. Carter, 668 F.3d 1108, 1112 (9th Cir. 2012) (dismissal under 28

U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii)); Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir. 2000)

(dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A). We affirm.

       The district court properly dismissed Rios’s claim alleging that Marsy’s Law

violates the Ex Post Facto Clause because this claim is foreclosed by this court’s

decision in Gilman v. Brown, 814 F.3d 1007 (9th Cir. 2016). See Littlejohn v.

United States, 321 F.3d 915, 920-23 (9th Cir. 2003) (setting forth standard of

review and requirements for claim preclusion and issue preclusion).

       The district court properly dismissed Rios’s due process and retaliation

claims because Rios failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim for

relief. See Swarthout v. Cooke, 562 U.S. 216, 220 (2011) (in parole context, due

process requires only that a prisoner be provided with an opportunity to be heard

and a statement of the reasons why parole was denied); Rhodes v. Robinson, 408

F.3d 559, 567-68 (9th Cir. 2005) (elements of a retaliation claim in the prison

context).

       We reject as meritless Rios’s contentions regarding the magistrate judge’s

jurisdiction and that the district court did not construe his pro se pleadings

liberally.

       We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued

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in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on

appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

      We do not consider documents not presented to the district court. See

United States v. Elias, 921 F.2d 870, 874 (9th Cir. 1990).

      AFFIRMED.

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