Opinion
No. 16-56908
11-30-2017
In re: DOUGLAS GILLIES, Debtor. DOUGLAS GILLIES, Appellant, v. JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., Appellee.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 2:16-cv-07590-FMO MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Fernando M. Olguin, District Judge, Presiding Before: CANBY, TROTT, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Douglas Gillies appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his adversary proceeding alleging pre-foreclosure related claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal on the basis of res judicata. Stewart v. U.S. Bancorp, 297 F.3d 953, 956 (9th Cir. 2002). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Gillies's action as barred by the doctrine of res judicata because Gillies either raised, or could have raised, his claims in his prior California state and federal court actions, which involved the same primary rights, and the same parties, and resulted in final judgments on the merits. See Gillies v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 213 Cal. Rptr. 3d 210, 216 (2017) (explaining that "[r]es judicata precludes piecemeal litigation by splitting a single cause of action or relitigation of the same cause of action on a different legal theory or for different relief" (citation omitted)).
Gillies's motion to take judicial notice (Docket Entry No. 20) is granted.
AFFIRMED.