Jack Gerritsen v. Consulado General De Mexico

Appellant Jack Gerritsen (“Gerritsen”) appears pro se, challenging the district court’s grants of motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment in favor of the defendants. Specifically, he claims error in the district court’s dismissal of the claims against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) and FBI agent Carlos Berrios (“Berrios”); he also challenges the district court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the Consulate General of Mexico (“the Consulate” or the “Mexican Consulate”), and several officers or employees of the Consulate — Consul Javier Escobar y Cordova, Consul Agustín Garcia Lopez San-taolalla, Vice-consul Enrique Silva Guzman, and Assistant Salvador Uribe (collectively, “the consular defendants” or “the Mexican defendants”). We affirm the district court.

I. Background

In 1985, Gerritsen brought suit against more than 20 defendants, including the defendants named above, the City of Los Angeles, several of its employees, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and others. The district court eventually dismissed all of the defendants; Gerritsen does not appeal the vast majority of those dismissals. Gerritsen claimed that the defendants violated his…