Opinion
No. 14-35604
12-22-2016
STANLEY MARCUS GALYEAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES INC.; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 2:13-cv-01359-MJP MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
Marsha J. Pechman, District Judge, Presiding Before: WALLACE, LEAVY, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Stanley Marcus Galyean appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his action alleging federal and state law claims arising out of the foreclosure of his home. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court's dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341 (9th Cir. 2010), and we affirm.
To the extent that Galyean raises his contract claims on appeal, the district court properly dismissed them because Galyean failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim for relief. See Hebbe, 627 F.3d at 341-42 (although pro se pleadings are liberally construed, a plaintiff must still present factual allegations sufficient to state a plausible claim for relief); see also Zuver v. Airtouch Communications, Inc., 103 P.3d 753, 759-68 (Wash. 2004) (discussing unconscionability of contracts under Washington law). Galyean waived any challenge to the dismissal of his other claims, most of which were dismissed as time-barred, by failing to explain in his opening brief how the district court erred. See Smith v. Marsh, 194 F.3d 1045, 1052 (9th Cir. 1999) ("[O]n appeal, arguments not raised by a party in its opening brief are deemed waived.").
We reject as without merit Galyean's contentions that Defendant IndyMac Federal Bank did not exist at the time defendants foreclosed on his home, that his loan was improperly "converted to an eMortgage," and that he had the right to demand production of his promissory note prior to paying it.
AFFIRMED.