THERESA BROOKE V. WESTCHASE MINI SUITES LLC, No. 22-55855 (9th Cir. 2023)

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED AUG 7 2023 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT THERESA BROOKE, a married woman dealing with her sole and separate claim, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS No. 22-55855 D.C. No. 2:22-cv-02943-MCS-PLA Plaintiff-Appellant, MEMORANDUM* v. WESTCHASE MINI SUITES LLC, DBA Best Western Plus Thousand Oaks Inn, a California limited liability company, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Mark C. Scarsi, District Judge, Presiding Submitted July 18, 2023** Before: SCHROEDER, RAWLINSON, and BADE, Circuit Judges. Theresa Brooke appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing for lack of standing her disability discrimination action alleging claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) and California’s Unruh Act. We have * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. D’Lil v. Best W. Encina Lodge & Suites, 538 F.3d 1031, 1035 (9th Cir. 2008). We affirm. The district court properly dismissed Brooke’s ADA claim for lack of standing because Brooke failed to allege facts sufficient to establish that she planned to return to defendant’s hotel. See Chapman v. Pier 1 Imports (U.S.) Inc., 631 F.3d 939, 950 (9th Cir. 2011) (to establish Article III standing, an ADA plaintiff must show either an “inten[t] to return to a noncompliant accommodation” or that the noncompliant accommodation deterred the plaintiff from visiting and the plaintiff “plans to visit [the] noncompliant accommodation in the future”); see also Civ. Rts. Educ. & Enf’t Ctr. v. Hosp. Props. Tr., 867 F.3d 1093, 1100 (9th Cir. 2017) (“[C]oncrete travel plans would be sufficient to show that a disabled plaintiff intends to visit a facility . . . .”). The district court did not abuse its discretion in declining supplemental jurisdiction over Brooke’s Unruh Act claim. See 28 U.S.C. § 1367(c)(4); Vo v. Choi, 49 F.4th 1167, 1171-73 (9th Cir. 2022) (setting forth standard of review and explaining when a district court may decline supplemental jurisdiction over Unruh Act claims under § 1367(c)(4)). AFFIRMED. 2 22-55855

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