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Luella VAUGHN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, a division of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 11-17902.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted April 16, 2013.
    
    Filed April 23, 2013.
    Luella Vaughn, Sacramento, CA, pro se.
    Mary Elizabeth Holt, Esquire, Severson & Werson, San Francisco, CA, William Brian Jones, Esquire, Wolfe & Wyman, LLP, Walnut Creek, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before: CANBY, IKUTA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Luella Vaughn appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing her action arising out of foreclosure proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal of an action as barred by the doctrine of res judicata, Stewart v. U.S. Bancorp, 297 F.3d 953, 956 (9th Cir.2002), and for an abuse of discretion the denial of leave to amend a complaint, Cervantes v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc., 656 F.3d 1034, 1041 (9th Cir.2011).

The district court properly dismissed Vaughn’s action as barred by the doctrine of res judicata because Vaughn raised, or could have raised, her claims in her prior action that involved the same defendants and was decided on the merits. See Stewart, 297 F.3d at 956 (res judicata bars litigation in a subsequent action of “any claims that were raised or could have been raised in a prior action” (emphasis, citation, and internal quotation marks omitted)).

The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Vaughn leave to file an amended complaint. See Cervantes, 656 F.3d at 1041 (“Although leave to amend should be given freely, a district court may dismiss without leave where a plaintiffs proposed amendments would fail to cure the pleading deficiencies and amendment would be futile.”).

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.