Willems

Willems v. Apartment Investment & Management Co.

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72 F. App'x 700
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitAugust 18, 2003No. 02-17185; D.C. No. CV-01-01577-ROSCalifornia282 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

June E. Willems appeals pro se the district court’s judgment dismissing her ac *701 tion alleging various constitutional and statutory civil rights violations. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo a dismissal for failure to state a claim, Kirtley v. Rainey, 326 F.3d 1088, 1092 (9th Cir.2003), and we affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Willems’ constitutional claims because she failed to allege state action, see George v. Pacific-CSC Work Furlough, 91 F.3d 1227, 1229 (9th Cir.1996), and properly dismissed her claims under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985-1986 because she failed to allege a conspiracy to deprive her of equal protection based on racial or other class-based discrimination, see Sever v. Alaska Pulp Corp., 978 F.2d 1529, 1536 (9th Cir.1992); McCalden v. Cal. Library Ass’n, 955 F.2d 1214, 1223 (9th Cir.1992). Willems failed to state any other statutory claim upon which relief could be granted; 18 U.S.C. § 1001 does not provide a private right of action, there is no 18 U.S.C. § 3802 , and 48 U.S.C. § 1561 is inapplicable as it pertains to due process rights in the Virgin Islands.

Willems’s contention that dismissal violated her right…

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