Cornelius Lopes v. Freemont Freewheelers

MEMORANDUM

Cornelius Lopes appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his action alleging various federal civil rights and state law claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Fink v. Shedler, 192 F.3d 911, 913-14 (9th Cir.1999), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Lopes’s federal civil rights and state law claims on statute of limitations grounds because the claims accrued more than two years before Lopes filed this action. See Jones v. Blanas, 393 F.3d 918, 927 (9th Cir.2004) (stating that the statute of limitations for 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims is governed by the forum state’s statute of limitations for personal injury claims, and that, effective January 1, 2003, the applicable statute of limitations under California law is two years); Taylor v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal., 993 F.2d 710 , 711-12 (9th Cir.1993) (per curiam) (explaining that the limitations period that governs section 1983 claims also governs claims under section 1981, section 1985, and Title VI); Stavropoulos v. Superior Court, 141 Cal.App.4th 190 , 45 Cal.Rptr.3d 705, 706 (Cal.Ct.App.2006) (holding that the statute of limitations for malicious…