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Timothy R. PANNABECKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee FOR the CSMC MORTGAGE-BACKED TRUST SERIES 2006-2; et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Cal-Western Reconveyance, LLC; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Defendants.
    No. 15-55520
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted March 8, 2017 
    
    Filed March 16, 2017
    Timothy R. Pannabecker, Pro Se
    Kerry W. Franich, Suzanne M. Hankins, Esquire, Kenneth Sur Miller, Esquire, Severson & Werson, Irvine, CA, Jan T. Chilton, Attorney, Severson & Werson APC, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees U.S. Bank NA, America’s Servicing Company
    Kenneth Sur Miller, Esquire, Severson & Werson, Irvine, CA, for Defendants-Appellees Certificateholders of the CSMC Mortgage-Backed Trust Series 2006-2, Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp.
    Before: LEAVY, W. FLETCHER, and OWENS, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Timothy R. Pannabecker appeals pro se from the district court’s order dismissing his action alleging violations of federal and state law arising from the foreclosure of his home.' We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s dismissal under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). AE ex rel. Hernandez v. County of Tulare, 666 F.3d 631, 636 (9th Cir. 2012). We may affirm on any basis supported by the record. United States v. Washington, 969 F.2d 752, 755 (9th Cir. 1992). We affirm.

The district court properly concluded that Pannabecker lacked standing to pursue his wrongful foreclosure claim based on defendants’ alleged untimely assignment of the deed of trust, because .the California Court of Appeal has held that an untimely assignment into a securitized trust is not void, but merely voidable, and that boiTowers lack standing to challenge such assignments. See, e.g., Saterbak v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 245 Cal.App.4th 808, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 790, 796 (2016) (“Yvanova expressly offers no opinion as to whether, under New York law, an untimely assignment to a securitized trust made after the trust’s closing date is void or merely voidable. We conclude such an assignment is merely voidable.” (citation omitted)). Thus, dismissal of Pannabecker’s claim challenging the foreclosure of his home on this ground was proper.

The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Pannabecker leave to amend, see Cervantes v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc,, 656 F.3d 1034, 1041 (9th Cir. 2011) (setting forth standard of review and explaining that a district court may deny leave to amend where the proposed amendments would be futile), or by declining to hear oral argument, see Spradlin v. Lear Siegler Mgmt. Servs. Co., 926 F.2d 865, 867 (9th Cir. 1991) (setting forth standard of review).

We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued in the opening brief. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

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