Roy Dandridge v. Select Portfolio Servicing, Inc.
Opinion
Opinion
facts and recite them only as necessary. “We review de novo the district court’s
grant of a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6), accepting all factual allegations
in the complaint as true and construing them in the light most favorable to the
nonmoving party.” Stoyas v. Toshiba Corp., 896 F.3d 933, 938 (9th Cir. 2018)
(citation omitted). “We review denial of leave to amend for abuse of discretion.”
Hoang v. Bank of Am., N.A., 910 F.3d 1096, 1102 (9th Cir. 2018). We have
jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
1. The district court did not err by dismissing the Dandridges’ breach-of-
contract claim based on SPS’s alleged failure to credit the Dandridges’ 2015 loan
payments to their account. The district court correctly concluded that this claim
accrued in 2015 and was therefore barred by the four-year statute of limitations.
See Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 337(a) (establishing four-year statute of limitations for
contract claims). California’s discovery rule “delays accrual until the plaintiff has,
or should have, inquiry notice of the cause of action.” Fox v. Ethicon Endo-
Surgery, Inc., 110 P.3d 914, 920 (Cal. 2005). The Dandridges could have…