Opinion
20-16508
10-20-2021
JEROME A. BEARDEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF ALAMEDA, Defendant-Appellee.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California D.C. No. 3:19-cv-04264-SI Susan Illston, District Judge, Presiding
Before: TALLMAN, RAWLINSON, and BUMATAY, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
Jerome A. Bearden appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983 action alleging various claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Colony Cove Props., LLC v. City of Carson, 640 F.3d 948, 955 (9th Cir. 2011). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Bearden's action because Bearden failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (to avoid dismissal, "a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face" (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 828 (1994) (discussing deliberate indifference standard as applied to prisoners); Castro v. County of Los Angeles, 833 F.3d 1060, 1073-76 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc) (discussing requirements to establish municipal liability under § 1983 under Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978)); Fed'n of African Am. Contractors v. City of Oakland, 96 F.3d 1204, 1215-16 (9th Cir. 1996) (holding that a municipality may only be held liable for violations of § 1981 resulting from an official "policy or custom"); Taus v. Loftus, 151 P.3d 1185, 1207-08, 1212 (Cal. 2007) (setting forth elements of public-disclosure-of-private-facts and intrusion-into-private-matters torts); Bogard v. Employers Cas. Co., 210 Cal.Rptr. 578, 587 (Ct. App. 1985) (setting forth elements of an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim).
We reject as meritless Bearden's contention that the district court was biased.
We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued 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).
AFFIRMED.