Phillip Reed v. Sergio Jimenez

NOT FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT MAR 19 2014 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS PHILLIP REED, an individual, No. 12-55718 Plaintiff - Appellant, D.C. No. 2:11-cv-03776-JHN-JC v. MEMORANDUM* SERGIO JIMENEZ, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Deputies [No. 476229]; ALBERTO HERNANDEZ, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Deputies [No. 460887], Defendants - Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Jacqueline H. Nguyen, District Judge, Presiding Argued August 8, 2013 Submitted March 19, 2014 Pasadena, California Before: TALLMAN, CLIFTON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges. * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. In an appeal arising from the same incident at issue in Reed v. Baca, No. 11- 56429, plaintiff Philip Reed appeals both the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the named defendants and its dismissal of the unnamed defendants. We review a grant of summary judgment de novo, Fed. Trade Comm’n v. Stefanchik, 559 F.3d 924, 927 (9th Cir. 2009), and we affirm the grant of summary judgment to Officers Jimenez and Hernandez for the reasons explained in our disposition in Reed v. Baca, No. 11-56429. We review for abuse of discretion the court’s dismissal of the unnamed defendants due to Reed’s failure to serve them with process within 120 days of filing. Walker v. Sumner, 14 F.3d 1415, 1422 (9th Cir. 1994), overruled on other grounds by Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472, 483–84 (1995). The district court properly held that because Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(m)’s 120-day requirement for service “is in direct collision” with California law, it must apply Rule 4(m). Hanna v. Plumer, 380 U.S. 460, 472 (1965). Reed could not show any significant effort to obtain the names of the defendants he wished to serve in the 255 days following the filing of the complaint. Therefore, the district court did not abuse its discretion when it concluded that Reed did not demonstrate good cause to extend the time for service. The district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.