Frederick Staves v. The City of Los Angeles

MEMORANDUM

Frederick James Staves appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) on statute of limitations grounds. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Jones v. Blanas, 393 F.3d 918, 926 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Staves’s claims as time-barred because Staves filed this action over nine years after the claims accrued. See Canatella v. Van De Kamp, 486 F.3d 1128, 1132-33 (9th Cir.2007) (civil rights claims that were more than one-year old as of January 1, 2003 are governed by California’s previous one-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims); Pincay v. Andrews, 238 F.3d 1106, 1108 (9th Cir.2001) (the statute of limitations for civil RICO actions is four years). Further, Staves failed to establish that he used due diligence to uncover the allegedly concealed facts. See Volk v. D.A. Davidson & Co., 816 F.2d 1406, 1415-16 (9th Cir.1987).

Staves’s remaining contentions, including that the district court abused its discretion by denying his motion for a default judgment, are…