Case Name: Robert WELBOURN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-04-11
Citations: 125 F. App'x 203
Docket Number: No. 04-55992; D.C. No. CV-04-00228-ABC
Parties: Robert WELBOURN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; et al., Defendants—Appellees.
Judges: Before KOZINSKI, HAWKINS, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 125
Pages: 203–203

Head Matter:
Robert WELBOURN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; et al., Defendants—Appellees.
No. 04-55992.
D.C. No. CV-04-00228-ABC.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted April 4, 2005.
Decided April 11, 2005.
Dennis E. McGoldrick, Attorney at Law, Torrance, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Jorje Chica, Esq., Franscell, Strickland, Roberts & Lawrence, Glendale, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
Before KOZINSKI, HAWKINS, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Robert Welbourn appeals the district court's order dismissing as time-barred his 42 U.S.C. § 1988 action alleging defendants negligently failed to protect him from an attack by his own client in a Los Angeles courtroom. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal on statute of limitations grounds, Johnson v. California, 207 F.3d 650, 653 (9th Cir.2000), and we affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Welbourn's action because all of his allegations stem from the attack on January 14, 2002, and Welbourn did not file his complaint until January 14, 2004. See id. (California's one-year statute of limitations applied to section 1983 actions under former Cal.Civ.Proc.Code § 340(3) (2002)).
Welbourn's contention that the statute of limitations was tolled by his state court action is without merit.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.