Tyrone Nall v. Shelley Williams ( 2021 )


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  •                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
    JAN 27 2021
    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
    MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
    U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
    FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
    TYRONE T.H. NALL,                               No. 19-16894
    Plaintiff-Appellant,            D.C. No. 3:18-cv-00281-RCJ-WGC
    v.
    MEMORANDUM*
    SHELLEY WILLIAMS; et al.,
    Defendants-Appellees.
    Appeal from the United States District Court
    for the District of Nevada
    Robert Clive Jones, District Judge, Presiding
    Submitted January 20, 2021**
    Before:      McKEOWN, CALLAHAN, and BRESS, Circuit Judges.
    Nevada state prisoner Tyrone T.H. Nall appeals pro se from the district
    court’s judgment dismissing his 
    42 U.S.C. § 1983
     action alleging a due process
    claim arising from an alleged miscalculation of his parole eligibility date. We have
    jurisdiction under 
    28 U.S.C. § 1291
    . We review de novo the district court’s
    *
    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).
    dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. Hayes v. Idaho Corr. Ctr., 
    849 F.3d 1204
    ,
    1208 (9th Cir. 2017). We affirm.
    The district court properly dismissed Nall’s Fourteenth Amendment due
    process claim because Nall failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible
    claim. See Swarthout v. Cooke, 
    562 U.S. 216
    , 219 (2011) (when analyzing a due
    process claim, “[w]e first ask whether there exists a liberty or property interest of
    which a person has been deprived, and if so we ask whether the procedures
    followed by the State were constitutionally sufficient”); Moor v. Palmer, 
    603 F.3d 658
    , 661 (9th Cir. 2010) (“Nevada’s statutory parole scheme . . . expressly
    disclaims any intent to create a liberty interest.”).
    The district court did not abuse its discretion by declining to exercise
    supplemental jurisdiction over Nall’s related state law claims. See 
    28 U.S.C. § 1367
    (c)(3); Ove v. Gwinn, 
    264 F.3d 817
    , 826 (9th Cir. 2001) (standard of review;
    court may decline supplemental jurisdiction over related state law claims once it
    has dismissed all claims over which it has original jurisdiction).
    We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued
    in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 
    587 F.3d 983
    , 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).
    AFFIRMED.
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