635 F. App'x 373

Numa BARNES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOMEWARD RESIDENTIAL, INC.; et al., Defendants-Appellees.

No. 13-17510.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted Feb. 24, 2016.*

Filed March 3, 2016.

Megan Dailey, Michael James Yesk, Esquire, Yesk Law, Pleasant Hill, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Regina J. McClendon, Stephanie A. Wraight, Esquire, Locke Lord LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: LEAVY, FERNANDEZ, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

MEMORANDUM **

Numa Barnes appeals from the district court’s judgment dismissing her action alleging raising federal and state law foreclosure-related claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a district court’s dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) on the basis of res judicata. Stewart v. U.S. Bancorp, 297 F.3d 953, 956 (9th Cir. 2002). We vacate and remand.

In dismissing this action on the basis of res judicata, the district court applied the standard used to analyze the preclusive effect of prior federal court judgments. However, “[ujnder 28 U.S.C. § 1738, federal courts are required to give state court judgments the preclusive effects they would be given by another court of that state.” Brodheim v. Cry, 584 F.3d 1262, 1268 (9th Cir.2009). Unlike the federal courts, “which apply a ‘transactional nucleus of facts’ test, ‘California courts employ the primary rights theory to determine what constitutes the same cause of action for claim preclusion purposes.’ ” Id. (citation omitted). Accordingly, we vacate the district court’s judgment and remand for the district court to determine in the first instance the preclusive effect to be given Barnes’s prior California state court action under the correct standard.

The parties shall bear their own costs on appeal.

VACATED and REMANDED.

Barnes v. Homeward Residential, Inc.
635 F. App'x 373

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Barnes v. Homeward Residential, Inc.
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