Case Name: In re Benjamin MENJIVAR, Debtor. Benjamin Menjivar; et al., Appellants, v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Successor and/or Assignee of World Savings Bank, FSB, its Successors and or Assignees, Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-05-04
Citations: 639 F. App'x 482
Docket Number: No. 14-60012
Parties: In re Benjamin MENJIVAR, Debtor. Benjamin Menjivar; et al., Appellants, v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Successor and/or Assignee of World Savings Bank, FSB, its Successors and or Assignees, Appellee.
Judges: Before: D.W. NELSON, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 639
Pages: 482–483

Head Matter:
In re Benjamin MENJIVAR, Debtor. Benjamin Menjivar; et al., Appellants, v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Successor and/or Assignee of World Savings Bank, FSB, its Successors and or Assignees, Appellee.
No. 14-60012.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Feb. 2, 2016.
Filed May 4, 2016.
Philip Eberhard Koebel, Law Offices of Philip E. Koebel, Pasadena, CA, Richard Lawrence Antognini, Law Offices of Rich ard L. Antognini, Lincoln, CA, Chris Ford, Esquire, Law Office of Chris Ford Phoenix, AZ, for Debtor.
Philip Eberhard Koebel, Richard Lawrence Antognini, Chris Ford, Esquire, for Appellants.
Robert Collings Little, Esquire, Jeremy E. Shulman, Anglin Flewelling Rasmussen Campbell & Trytten, LLP Pasadena, CA, for Appellee.
Before: D.W. NELSON, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Benjamin and Sara Menjivar appeal from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel's ("BAP") affirmance of the bankruptcy court's dismissal of their First Amended Complaint ("FAC") for failure to state a claim in an adversary bankruptcy proceeding. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 158(d). We review de novo the BAP's decision, Boyajian v. New Falls Corp. (In re Boyajian), 564 F.3d 1088, 1090 (9th Cir.2009), and we AFFIRM.
The BAP did not err in applying California's three-year limitations period for fraud claims, Cal. C. Civ. Proc. § 338(d), to affirm the dismissal with prejudice of the Menjivars' claims seeking to invalidate the note and trust deed against their residence on a theory of fraudulent inducement. Cf. Vess v. Ciba-Geigy Corp. USA 317 F.3d 1097, 1103-04 (9th Cir.2003) (explaining that, where a plaintiff "allege[s] a unified course of fraudulent conduct and reifies] entirely on that course of conduct as the basis of a claim," the claim "is said to be 'grounded in fraud' or to 'sound in fraud' " (citations omitted)).
The Menjivars assert for the first, time on appeal that California's limitations period for rescission or unfair business practices claims should be applied to their state law claims. Because these issues are raised for the first time on appeal, and because the Menjivars have not identified any "exceptional circumstances" that would warrant a favorable exercise of our discretion to consider them, we decline to do so. Mano-Y & M, Ltd. v. Field (In re Mortgage Store, Inc.), 773 F.3d 990, 998 (9th Cir.2014). The Menjivars have not pled, and have not indicated a willingness or ability to plead, facts sufficient to articulate a cognizable claim for rescission or unfair business practices under California law. As counsel conceded at oral argument, the FAC does not contain the words "rescission" or "rescind," and it nowhere references California Code of Civil Procedure § 337(3) or California's Unfair Competition Law ("UCL"), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200 et seq. Additionally, the Menjivars never argued before the bankruptcy court or the BAP that their FAC stated rescission or UCL claims.
Because we affirm the dismissal of the Menjivars' claims on other grounds, we do not reach the issue, also raised by the Menjivars for the first time on appeal, of Wells Fargo's ability to assert preemption under the Home Owners' Loan Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1461 et seq.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.