Resident Minors of the City an v. Jerry Brown

MEMORANDUM

Alfred Lam appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing for lack of standing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and state law claims on behalf of a class of past, present, and future minors subject to neglect and abuse in the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo, Mortensen v. County of Sacramento, 368 F.3d 1082, 1086 (9th Cir.2004), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Lam’s action for lack of standing because Lam, a Juvenile Justice Center employee, failed to establish that he had suffered “a distinct and palpable injury to himself’ as a result of defendants’ alleged abuse and neglect of minors in their care. McMichael v. County of Napa, 709 F.2d 1268, 1269-70 (9th Cir.1983) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted) (discussing constitutional and prudential standing).

The district court did not abuse its discretion in denying Lam leave to amend to add allegations that he suffered economic harm, employer retaliation, and emotional injury because these alleged wrongs do not have a “fairly traceable causal connection” to defendants’ alleged abuse or neglect…