Case Name: R. Wayne PATTERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES SENATE; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-08-04
Citations: 667 F. App'x 962
Docket Number: No. 14-15899
Parties: R. Wayne PATTERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES SENATE; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER, CANBY, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 667
Pages: 962–963

Head Matter:
R. Wayne PATTERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES SENATE; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 14-15899
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 26, 2016
FILED August 04, 2016
R. Wayne Patterson, Pro Se
Morgan Frankel, U.S. Senate Legal Counsel’s Office, Washington, DC, Thomas Edward Caballero, Assistant Counsel, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appel-lees United States Senate, Joseph Biden, Elizabeth Macdonough
Before: SCHROEDER, CANBY, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
R. Wayne Patterson, a California attorney, appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his action for injunctive and declaratory relief challenging the constitutionality of United States Senate Rule XXII (the "Cloture Rule"). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Hayes v. County of San Diego, 736 F.3d 1223, 1228 (9th Cir. 2013), and we affirm.
The district court properly dismissed for lack of standing Patterson's action because Patterson failed to allege facts sufficient to demonstrate an injury in fact. See Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-61, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992) (constitutional standing requires an "injury in fact," causation, and redressability; "injury in fact" refers to "an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized ,.. and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical" (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Raines v. Byrd, 521 U.S. 811, 826, 829-30, 117 S.Ct. 2312, 138 L.Ed.2d 849 (1997) (legislators lacked standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Line Item Veto Act because they complained only of an "abstract dilution of institutional legislative power," which was not a sufficiently personal and concrete injury).
Because we affirm the district court's dismissal of Patterson's action for lack of standing, we do not consider the merits of Patterson's claims.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.