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Jasper CROOK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dana Nicole THIBEDEAUX, AKA Dana Nicolas Edenburg, AKA Dana N. Harris; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 16-55477
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 11, 2017 
    
    Filed July 17, 2017
    Jasper Crook, Pro Se
    Douglas Charles Smith, Esquire, Attorney, Smith Law Offices, APC, Riverside, CA, for Defendants-Appellees
    Before: CANBY, KOZINSKI, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges. .
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See. Fed. R. App. P, 34(a)(2). To the extent Crook’s reply brief requests oral argument, Crook's request is denied.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Jasper Crook appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. '§ 1983 action alleging various claims arising from a child support and custody dispute. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a district court’s dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). Hebbe v. Pliler, 627 F.3d 338, 341 (9th Cir. 2010). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Crook’s action because Crook failed to allege facts sufficient to state a plausible claim for relief. See id. at 341-42 (although pro se pleadings are to be liberally construed, a plaintiff must present factual allegations sufficient to state a plausible claim for relief); see also Naffe v. Frey, 789 F.3d 1030, 1035-36 (9th Cir. 2015) (elements of § 1983 claim).

To the extent that Crook challenges the dismissal with prejudice of civil -rights claims alleged in his Second Amended Complaint, the district court properly dismissed those claims as time-barred. See Cal, Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1 (two-year statute of limitations for personal injury-claims); Lukovsky v. City & County of San Francisco, 535 F.3d 1044, 1048 (9th Cir. 2008) (California’s statute of limitations for personal injury torts applies to § 1983 and § 1985 claims).

We do not consider issues or arguments not specifically and distinctly raised in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

We construe Crook’s notification (Docket Entry No. 15) as a request to file a late reply brief, and grant the request. The Clerk shall file the reply brief received on January 17, 2017 (Docket Entry No. 13).

AFFIRMED. 
      
      
         This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.