Opinion
No. 20-15483
04-28-2021
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 2:17-cv-02479-JCM-EJY MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
James C. Mahan, District Judge, Presiding Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, TASHIMA and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Wanda Marie Cohill appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing her diversity action arising out of foreclosure proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a district court's dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim. Naffe v. Frey, 789 F.3d 1030, 1035 (9th Cir. 2015). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Cohill's action because Cohill failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim. See Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(3)(d)-(e) (three-year statute of limitations for misrepresentation claims); Rivera v. Peri & Sons Farms, Inc., 735 F.3d 892, 899 (9th Cir. 2013) (elements of breach of contract claim under Nevada law); Wood v. Germann, 331 P.3d 859, 861-862 (Nev. 2014) (holding that, under Nevada law, homeowner lacked standing to challenge an assignment of a deed of trust as a non-party to the pooling service agreement); Hilton Hotels Corp. v. Butch Lewis Prod. Inc., 808 P.2d 919, 923 (Nev. 1991) (elements of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing claim under Nevada law); see also 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)).
We reject as without merit Cohill's contention that the district judge was biased against her.
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.