Aparna Vashisht-Rota, an individual v. HOWELL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC, a Utah limited liability company;

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
APARNA VASHISHT-ROTA, an
individual,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
HOWELL MANAGEMENT SERVICES,
LLC, a Utah limited liability company; et
al.,
Defendants-Appellees.
No. 19-55748
D.C. No. 3:18-cv-02010-L-AGS
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of California
M. James Lorenz, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted February 17, 2021**
Before: FERNANDEZ, BYBEE, and BADE, Circuit Judges.
Aparna Vashisht-Rota appeals pro se the district court’s judgment
dismissing her diversity action alleging employment claims under California law.
We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal
* 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).
FILED
FEB 24 2021
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

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under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338,
341 (9th Cir. 2010). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Vashisht-Rota’s claims in this action as
compulsory counterclaims because they arose from the same transaction or
occurrence as the claims being litigated in a pending Utah state court case, No.
170100325, Howell Mgmt. Servs. LLC v. August Educ. Grp., et al. See Utah R.
Civ. P. 13(a); Pochiro v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America, 827 F.2d 1246, 1249 (9th
Cir. 1987) (“The question whether the [Plaintiff’s] claims are compulsory
counterclaims which should have been pleaded in the earlier. . . state court action is
a question of state law.”); Yanaki v. Iomed Inc., 116 P.3d 962, 963-65 (Utah Ct.
App. 2005) (under Utah R. Civ. P. 13(a)(1), employee’s discrimination claims
were compulsory counterclaims that should have been filed in employer’s earlier-
filed action, even if administrative remedies were not yet exhausted; the
employment relationship was the transaction or occurrence that was the subject
matter of the employer’s claims); see also Beck v. Fort James Corp. (In re Crown
Vantage, Inc.), 421 F.3d 963, 973 n.7 (9th Cir. 2005) (“Federal courts will not
permit an action to be maintained where the claims asserted should have been
brought as a compulsory counterclaim in an earlier action.”).
We do not consider arguments or allegations raised for the first time on
appeal, or documents and facts not presented to the district court. See Padgett v.

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Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009); United States v. Elias, 921 F.2d
870, 874 (9th Cir. 1990).
Vashisht-Rota’s motion to withdraw Docket Entry No. 50 (Docket Entry No.
51) is granted. The Clerk will strike Docket Entry No. 50. All other pending
motions and requests are denied.
AFFIRMED.

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