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Joseph H.R. GELISSEN, Trustee; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 03-35017. D.C. No. CV-02-01667-MJP.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted Aug. 11, 2003.
    
    Decided Aug. 21, 2003.
    Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HAWKINS and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument and denies Gelissen’s request for oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Joseph H.R. Gelissen appeals pro se the district court’s judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1981 action alleging Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment violations arising from lawsuits brought against him in Washington state courts following a condominium association’s foreclosure on his boat slip. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Yakama Indian Nation v. Wash. Dep’t of Revenue, 176 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir. 1999), and we affirm.

The district court properly decided that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the Eleventh Amendment bars actions against a state or its agencies in federal court unless the state unequivocally consents to a waiver of its immunity. See id. at 1245 (9th Cir.1999).

Gelissen’s remaining contentions lack merit.

AFFIRMED. 
      
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