Legal Opinion
Butterfield v. Bail
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 25, 1997No. 95-35760PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:
Washington state prisoner Richard A. Butterfield appeals pro se the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that defendants violated his due process rights when they relied on false information in Butterfield’s prison file to find him ineligible for parole. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a district court’s Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) dismissal for failure to state a claim, see Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Dep’t, 901 F.2d 696, 699 (9th Cir.1988), and we affirm.
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Butterfield contends that the district court erred…
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