Opinion ID: 465257
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Heading: Claims against the State and Attorney-General

Text: 36 King's claims against the State and its Attorney-General are vague and without a legal basis. She complains about civil rights violations, but her basis for these claims and the relief she seeks are nebulous at best. Her argument apparently is that the State is not enforcing the suspension of R & T's powers nor is it instituting quo warranto proceedings, thus violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by not treating R & T as it would treat other corporations. 37 We affirm the district court's dismissal of the State and the Attorney-General. Conclusory statements unsupported by allegations of unequal treatment that implicates constitutional safeguards do not set forth a claim. We need not resolve our serious doubts about her standing to sue for unequal treatment of R & T, but even if she was so injured by the State's alleged preferential treatment of R & T that she could claim standing, she makes no cognizable equal protection claim. The Attorney-General has broad discretion in granting or denying leave to sue in quo warranto, City of Campbell v. Mosk, 197 Cal.App.2d 640, 648, 17 Cal.Rptr. 584, 585 (1961), and King has alleged neither a suspect classification calling for strict scrutiny nor that the Attorney-General's inaction bears no rational relationship to any legitimate governmental purpose. See Bunyan v. Camacho, 770 F.2d 773, 774 (9th Cir.1985).