Bey v. State of Arizona

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: January 28, 2026
• Docket: 24-3393
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JAN 28 2026 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DARIUS JOHNSON BEY, named as No. 24-3393 Darius-Johnson Bey, D.C. No. 2:23-cv-00477-MTL-CDB Plaintiff - Appellant,

v. MEMORANDUM*

STATE OF ARIZONA, in care of Attorney General Kris Mayes; ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, Risk Management Division, named as ADOD Risk Management; PHOENIX POLICE DEPARTMENT, named as The City of Phoenix Police Department; CURTIS KLUSEK; ANDREA LAMPHIER; ARIZONA PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING BOARD,

Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Michael T. Liburdi, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted January 22, 2026**

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Before: WARDLAW, CLIFTON, and R. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Darius Johnson Bey appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment

dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and state law claims arising

from a traffic stop and his subsequent arrest and detention. We have jurisdiction

under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s summary

judgment, Desire, LLC v. Manna Textiles, Inc., 986 F.3d 1253, 1259 (9th Cir.

2021), and its dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), Benavidez

v. County of San Diego, 993 F.3d 1134, 1141 (9th Cir. 2021). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Bey’s Fourth

Amendment claim against Officer Klusek because Bey failed to raise a genuine

dispute of material fact as to whether Klusek lacked probable cause to arrest and

detain him for criminal speeding and failure to provide identification. See Cabrera

v. City of Huntington Park, 159 F.3d 374, 380 (9th Cir. 1998) (explaining that to

prevail on a Fourth Amendment claim for false arrest and imprisonment, the

plaintiff must demonstrate there was no probable cause to arrest him).

The district court properly dismissed Bey’s other claims because Bey failed

to allege facts sufficient to state any plausible claim. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556

U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (explaining that to avoid dismissal, “a complaint must

contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is

plausible on its face” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).

2 24-3393 We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued

in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on

appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

AFFIRMED.

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