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12-16395•Scott Alan Huminski v. City of Surprise, named as: Town of Surprise;
12-16395Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitAug 20, 2013
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).
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
SCOTT ALAN HUMINSKI,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
CITY OF SURPRISE, named as: Town of
Surprise; et al.,
Defendants - Appellees.
No. 12-16395
D.C. No. 2:11-cv-00896-DGC
MEMORANDUM*
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Arizona
David G. Campbell, District Judge, Presiding
Submitted August 14, 2013**
Before: SCHROEDER, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Scott Alan Huminski appeals pro se from the district court’s summary
judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging constitutional violations in
connection with an email he received from defendant Heredia. We have
FILED
AUG 20 2013
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U .S. C OU R T OF APPE ALS
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jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Toguchi v. Chung, 391
F.3d 1051, 1056 (9th Cir. 2004). We affirm.
On appeal, Huminski contends that section 13-2921 of the Arizona Revised
Statutes is unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. The district court did not err in
declining to rule on this issue because it was not properly raised before the district
court. See Brazil v. U.S. Dep’t of Navy, 66 F.3d 193, 198-99 (9th Cir. 1995)
(finding no error in district court’s failure to address a claim in its summary
judgment ruling where pro se plaintiff’s pleadings gave defendants insufficient
notice of the claim); see also McHenry v. Renne, 84 F.3d 1172, 1178 (9th Cir.
1996) (a complaint must make clear “who is being sued, for what relief, and on
what theory, with enough detail to guide discovery”). Because the district court
did not rule on this issue, we decline to consider it on appeal. See Foti v. City of
Menlo Park, 146 F.3d 629, 638 (9th Cir. 1998) (courts of appeal generally do not
consider an issue not addressed by the district court).
We do not consider Huminski’s contentions, raised for the first time in his
reply brief, concerning whether defendant Heredia’s email constituted an order.
See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009) (per curiam).
Huminski’s pending motions are denied.
AFFIRMED.
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