Danilo Mallari v. Tracy Vessigault

670 F. App'x 930

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: November 21, 2016
• Docket: 14-16613
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Danilo Mallari appeals pro se from the district court’s order dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and state law violations in connection with the revocation of his company’s home health care agency license. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Harkonen v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 800 F.3d 1143, 1148 (9th Cir. 2015) (dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)); Viewtech, Inc. v. United States, 653 F.3d 1102, 1103-04 (9th Cir. 2011) (dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P, 12(b)(1)). We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

The district court properly dismissed Mallari’s negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims because Mallari failed to allege facts sufficient to state plausible claims. See Sabow v. United States, 93 F.3d 1445, 1454 (9th Cir. 1996) (claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress under California law requires inter alia “extreme and outrageous conduct by the defendant” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); see generally Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009) (“Threadbare recitals of the elements of a cause of action, supported by mere conclu-sory statements, do not suffice.”).

The district court dismissed Mallari’s § 1983 claim for lack of standing because Mallari failed to allege that he was injured directly and independently of Medhealth Nursing, LLC (“Medhealth”). However, in the Second Amended Complaint,' Mallari alleged that defendants’ conduct violated his own Fourteenth Amendment rights. See RK Ventures, Inc. v. City of Seattle, 307 F.3d 1045, 1057 (9th Cir. 2002) (shareholders of corporation alleged personal injury sufficient to confer § 1983 standing because they alleged violations of their own Fourteenth Amendment rights); Soranno’s Gasco, Inc. v. Morgan, 874 F.2d 1310, 1318-19 (9th Cir. 1989) (shareholder of corporation had § 1983 standing to bring First Amendment claim because the right that was allegedly violated belonged to the shareholder). Accordingly, we reverse the district court’s dismissal of the § 1983 claim for lack of standing, and remand for further proceedings as to that claim only.

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).

The parties shall bear their own costs on appeal.

AFFIRMED in part, REVERSED in part, REMANDED.

** This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.