Robert Ewbank v. Jeff Emrick

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: May 23, 2025
• Docket: 23-35625
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MAY 23 2025 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ROBERT DRAKE EWBANK, No. 23-35625

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 6:17-cv-00187-MK

v. MEMORANDUM* JEFF W. EMRICK, AKA Jeff Emerick, individually, and in his official capacity as (former) Deputy Director of AMHD of the Oregon Health Authority (OHA); ROBERT LEE, individually, former State of Oregon Housing Analyst and AMHPAC Olmstead/Housing Subcommittee co-Chair and volunteer; PAMELA MARTIN, individually and in her official capacity as (former) Director of the Addictions and Mental Health Division ("AMHD") of the Oregon Health Authority ("OHA"); LYNN SAXTON, individually, and in her official capacity as Director of the Oregon Health Authority; DARCY STRAHAN, individually and in her capacity as an AMHD supervisory manager; RICHARD WILCOX, in his official capacity Olmstead Plan Coordinator and assigned AMHPAC Olmstead/Housing Subcommittee staff; STATE OF OREGON; OREGON DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES; OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY; OREGON ADDICTIONS AND MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION, of

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. the Health Services Division; NICOLE CORBIN, individually and in her official capacity as AMHD/HSD Adult Services Coordinator,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Mustafa T. Kasubhai, Magistrate Judge, Presiding**

Submitted May 21, 2025***

Before: SILVERMAN, LEE, and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges.

Robert Drake Ewbank appeals pro se from the district court’s summary

judgment in his action alleging disability discrimination in violation of Title II of

the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). We have jurisdiction under 28

U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Vinson v. Thomas, 288 F.3d 1145, 1151 (9th

Cir. 2002). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Ewbank’s

disability discrimination claim because Ewbank failed to raise a genuine dispute of

material fact as to whether he was excluded from participation in state mental

** The parties consented to proceed before a magistrate judge. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). *** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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denied a reasonable accommodation. See Zukle v. Regents of Univ. of Cal., 166

F.3d 1041, 1045 (9th Cir. 1999) (setting forth the elements of a prima facie case

under Title II of the ADA, including that the dismissal or exclusion was “solely

because of [the plaintiff’s] disability”); Vinson, 288 F.3d at 1154 (explaining that

the interactive process to consider an accommodation “is triggered upon

notification of the disability and the desire for accommodation” and that the

plaintiff bears “the initial burden of producing evidence that a reasonable

accommodation was possible”).

To the extent that Ewbank seeks to appeal the district court’s dismissal of his

remaining claims for failure to state a claim, we do not consider his contentions

because he did not raise them in his earlier appeal. See In re Cellular 101, Inc.,

539 F.3d 1150, 1155 (9th Cir. 2008) (holding that “we need not and do not

consider a new contention that could have been but was not raised on the prior

appeal” (internal quotation marks omitted)).

Ewbank’s motion to appoint counsel (Docket Entry No. 36) and motion to

supplement the record (Docket Entry No. 37) are denied.

AFFIRMED.

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