Brenda Little v. State of Washington

MEMORANDUM

Brenda J. Little, an attorney on leave, appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging various federal and state law claims in connection with proceedings to determine the status of her membership in the Washington State Bar Association. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We review de novo. Knievel v. ESPN, 393 F.3d 1068, 1072 (9th Cir.2005) (dismissal under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6)); Dominguez v. Miller (In re Dominguez), 51 F.3d 1502 , 1508 n. 5 (9th Cir.1995) (dismissal under Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Little’s action because the First Amended Complaint did not comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2) (requiring pleading to contain “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief’); Starr v. Baca, 652 F.3d 1202, 1216 (9th Cir.2011) (to be entitled to presumption of truth, a complaint’s allegations may not simply recite elements of cause of action but must contain sufficient allegations of underlying facts to give fair notice and enable an effective defense; factual allegations taken as true must…