Daniel Olson v. California Adult Authority

Daniel Olson, appellant herein, a California state prisoner, filed a civil rights action against the California Adult Authority in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He complains that he has not been released on parole and that the rules of the California Adult Authority governing hearings before the parole board deny him due process in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The district court dismissed the action with prejudice on the ground that the “plaintiff has failed to state a claim against the named defendant.” We agree.

Treating the action as one…