Williams Ex Rel. Estate of Williams v. Clark County Public Administrator

MEMORANDUM

Terry Williams appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and state law claims arising from probate and wrongful death proceedings involving her father’s estate. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo the district court’s rulings regarding venue, Passantino v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Prods., Inc., 212 F.3d 493 , 504 (9th Cir.2000), and the dismissal of an action for failure to state a claim, Knievel v. ESPN, 393 F.3d 1068, 1072 (9th Cir.2005). We affirm.

The California district court properly transferred Williams’s action to Nevada because California was an improper venue for claims against defendants in Nevada that arose substantially out of events in Nevada. See 28 U.S.C. § 1391 (b) (listing grounds for venue); 28 U.S.C. § 1406 (a) (authorizing transfer of case to district where it could have been filed instead of dismissing it for improper venue).

The Nevada district court properly dismissed Williams’s claims under the Full Faith and Credit Clause because it does not authorize a private right of action. See Thompson v. Thompson, 798 F.2d 1547, 1555-56 (9th Cir.1986) (per…