Case Name: INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION and Local 21, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mark S. NELSON, et al., Defendants-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-04-02
Citations: 599 F. App'x 701
Docket Number: No. 13-35364
Parties: INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION and Local 21, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mark S. NELSON, et al., Defendants-Appellee.
Judges: Before: FISHER, BEA, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 599
Pages: 701–702

Head Matter:
INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION and Local 21, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mark S. NELSON, et al., Defendants-Appellee.
No. 13-35364.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 4, 2015.
Filed April 2, 2015.
Amy Endo, Esquire, Robert S. Remar, Esquire, Leonard Carder LLP, San Francisco, CA, Robert Lavitt, Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Michael Eugene Tardif, Freimund Jackson Tardif & Benedict Garratt, PLLC, Elizabeth A. McIntyre, Esquire, Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich P.S., Olympia, WA, for Defendants-Appel-lee.
Before: FISHER, BEA, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Plaintiffs appeal from summary judgment granted in favor of Defendants Cowl-itz County, City of Longview, and individually named law-enforcement officials. We review de novo. Acosta v. City of Costa Mesa, 718 F.3d 800, 822 (9th Cir.2013). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm. The Union lacks standing to sue on its own behalf and lacks standing to sue for damages on behalf of its members. Furthermore, its claims for prospective injunctive relief on behalf of its members have become moot.
First, the Union asserts organizational standing. To establish standing, organizations, like individuals, must satisfy the requirements of three elements: (1) injury-in-fact, (2) causation, and (3) redressability. La Asociacion de Trabajadores de Lake Forest v. City of Lake Forest, 624 F.3d 1083, 1088 (9th Cir.2010). "An organization suing on its own behalf can establish an injury when it suffered 'both a diversion of its resources and a frustration of its mission.' " Id. (quoting Fair Hous. of Marin v. Combs, 285 F.3d 899, 905 (9th Cir.2002)). ILWU contends that its members were systematically arrested in retaliation for exercising their First Amendment rights. ILWU attempts to satisfy the injury-in-fact element by arguing that it diverted considerable resources away from a labor dispute to deal with the retaliatory arrests. However, it failed to allege this injury in its complaint. Instead, it asserted the diversion of resources only in a declaration in support of its opposition to summary judgment. Such a declaration cannot retroactively confer standing to ILWU. See id. ('Without making any attempt to allege organizational standing in its complaint, [the] provision of affidavits and declarations supporting organizational standing at the summary judgment stage is ineffectual"). Thus, the Union lacks organizational standing.
Second, ILWU asserts claims for damages on behalf of its members. ILWU lacks associational standing to bring these claims. "[A]n association has standing to bring suit on behalf of its members when: [1] its members would otherwise have standing to sue in their own right; [2] the interests it seeks to protect are germane to the organization's purpose; and [B] neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit." Hunt v. Wash. State Apple Advertising Comm'n, 432 U.S. 333, 343, 97 S.Ct. 2434, 53 L.Ed.2d 383 (1977). The Union's claims for damages run afoul of the third prong, because those claims require the participation of individual members. See, e.g., Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 515-16, 95 S.Ct. 2197, 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975) ("[W]hat-ever injury may have been suffered is peculiar to the individual member concerned, and both the fact and extent of injury would require individualized proof.").
Third, ILWU seeks prospective injunc-tive relief on behalf of union members who might be detained in the future. These claims are moot. The probability of detention no longer exists: the arrests occurred allegedly in retaliation for the Union's protests targeted at organizing the workers' warehouse, but the statutes of limitation have run for the misdemeanors committed during those protests. See Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9A.04.080(l)(i), (j). Furthermore, the record is undisputed that the Union has since organized the warehouse it was picketing to organize, and the Union has not shown that its members have committed or might commit other offenses in the course of future protests. See Los Angeles Cnty. v. Davis, 440 U.S. 625, 631, 99 S.Ct. 1379, 59 L.Ed.2d 642 (1979) (" 'Simply stated, a case is moot when the issues presented are no longer "live" or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome.'" (quoting Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486, 496, 89 S.Ct. 1944, 23 L.Ed.2d 491 (1969))).
Appellants' motion to take judicial notice is denied.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.