Holmgeir Brynjolfsson v. State Agency Los Angeles Unified School District

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
HOLMGEIR BRYNJOLFSSON,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
STATE AGENCY LOS ANGELES
UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT,
Defendant - Appellee.
No. 12-55648
D.C. No. 2:11-cv-06775-CAS-
FFM
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
Christina A. Snyder, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted May 13, 2014**
Before: CLIFTON, BEA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
Holmgeir Brynjolfsson appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment
dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against the Los Angeles Unified School
District (“LAUSD”) alleging Fourteenth Amendment due process violations. We
FILED
MAY 29 2014
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** 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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have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal on the
basis of Eleventh Amendment immunity, Cholla Ready Mix, Inc. v. Civish, 382
F.3d 969, 973 (9th Cir. 2004), and we affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Brynjolffson’s action against LAUSD
on the basis of Eleventh Amendment immunity. See Belanger v. Madera Unified
Sch. Dist., 963 F.2d 248, 251-54 (9th Cir. 1992) (a school district is a “state
agency” for the purposes of the Eleventh Amendment); see also Pennhurst State
Sch. & Hosp. v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89, 100 (1984) (Eleventh Amendment
immunity applies to states and their agencies or departments “regardless of the
nature of the relief sought”).
AFFIRMED.
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