Racho

Yuki Kobayashi v. Racho

Good Law
271 F. App'x 692
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitMarch 26, 2008No. 07-55242California341 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Yuki Kobayashi appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his action alleging violations of state and federal law arising from his arrest. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . After de novo review, Noel v. Hall, 341 F.3d 1148, 1154 (9th Cir.2003) (subject matter jurisdiction), Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Dep’t, 839 F.2d 621 , 623 (9th Cir. 1988) (motion to dismiss), Navarro v. Block, 72 F.3d 712, 714 (9th Cir.1995) (summary judgment), we affirm.

The district court properly determined that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars Kobayashi’s claim that a judgment dismissing a prior state court case is invalid and void because it is a “forbidden de facto appeal” from a judicial decision of a state court. Noel, 341 F.3d at 1158 .

The district court properly dismissed for failure to state a claim Kobayashi’s challenges to the constitutionality of California’s vexatious litigant statutes because those statutes are constitutional. See Wolfe v. George, 486 F.3d 1120, 1125 (9th Cir .2007).

The district court properly dismissed for failure to state a claim Kobayashi’s claims under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1985 (3) and 1986 because he failed to allege facts…

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