LAKE v. MTGLQ LP AKA (2018)

MEMORANDUM **

Levi A. Lake appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in his diversity action alleging a quiet title claim. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Animal Legal Def. Fund v. U.S. Food & Drug Admin., 836 F.3d 987, 990 (9th Cir. 2016), and we affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment because Lake failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether he was entitled to quiet title on his property. See Wash. Rev. Code § 7.28.120 (elements of quiet title claim); Walker v. Quality Loan Serv. Corp., 176 Wash.App. 294, 308 P.3d 716, 728 (2013), as modified (Aug. 26, 2013) (“A plaintiff in an action to quiet title must prevail, if he prevails at all, on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of the title of his adversary.” (citation omitted)); see also 4518 S. 256th, LLC v. Karen L. Gibbon, P.S., 195 Wash.App. 423, 382 P.3d 1, 6 (2016) (the deed of trust foreclosure remedy is subject to a six-year statute of limitations).

We do not consider matters not specifically and distinctly raised and argued in the opening brief, or arguments and allegations raised for the first time on appeal. See Padgett v. Wright, 587 F.3d 983, 985 n.2 (9th Cir. 2009).

AFFIRMED.