Legal Opinion
Damous Nettles v. Randy Grounds
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 26, 2016No. 12-16935PublishedCited by 1,128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Partial Concurrence by Judge HURWITZ;
Dissent by Judge BERZON
OPINION
IKUTA, Circuit Judge:
Damous Nettles, a prisoner serving a life sentence in California prison, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his habeas petition for lack of jurisdiction. The petition challenged a disciplinary violation on constitutional grounds and claimed that the failure to expunge this violation from *925his record could affect his eligibility for parole. We conclude that because Nettles’s claim does not fall within the “core of habeas corpus,” Preiser v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 475, 487, 93 S.Ct. 1827, 36 L.Ed.2d 439…
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