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Gordon L. PLATT, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
CITY OF DAYTON DEPARTMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT, William
Schulke, Housing Inspector for the City of Dayton, Jeffrey
Rucker, Harvey Thorp, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 91-3442.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Sept. 23, 1991.
Before RALPH B. GUY, Jr. and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, Senior District Judge.*
ORDER
Gordon L. Platt, a pro se Ohio resident, appeals a district court judgment dismissing his civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The сase has been referred to a panel of the court pursuant to Rule 9(a), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination, the panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not necessary. Fed.R.App.P. 34(a).
Seeking damages and declaratory relief, Platt sued the City of Dayton Department of Urban Development, three conservation specialists of the Dayton Department of Urban Development (Schulke, Rucker, and Thorp), as well as the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development alleging: (1) that he was denied due process of law when the City of Dayton condemned several homes which he owned in the city as a result of the city's nuisance abatement program; (2) that he was denied the equal protection of the laws when he was prosеcuted for failure to comply with the nuisance abatement orders concerning the properties; and (3) that the nuisancе abatement proceedings against his properties were instituted as the result of a conspiracy against him by various emрloyees of the City of Dayton Law Department. In addition, Platt filed two amended complaints. In one, he asserted that Dayton did not comply with the "Barney Frank Amendment," 42 U.S.C. § 5304(d)(1), which limits the use of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for housing demolition to situations where the reсipient city certifies that it will assist poor and lower-income residents who are displaced by the demolition with relocation. Platt asserts that Dayton demolished his property with CDBG funds and did not assist the residents with relocation. In his second amended complaint, Plаtt asserted that he was denied proper medical treatment during the incarceration that was imposed following his prosеcution for failing to comply with the nuisance abatement orders.
The matter was referred to a United States magistrate judge fоr disposition upon the consent of the parties. After a review of the voluminous pleadings submitted by the parties, the magistrate judgе dismissed Platt's claims in part and granted summary judgment for defendants on the remaining claims. The magistrate judge dismissed, without prejudice, Platt's claims against the City of Dayton Law Department, his claims for improper medical treatment, as well as his claims that his home and office were the subject of a warrantless search, finding that Platt had never sought to add the individuals named in those claims as defendants. The district court granted summary judgment on the remaining claims finding: (1) that Platt's claims concerning nuisance abatement proceedings against his property were barred by res judicata, because Platt had not timely challenged the results of the nuisance abatemеnt proceedings in the state courts; and (2) that collateral estoppel barred Platt's claims pursuant to the "Barney Frank Amendment," because Platt could not assert in a subsequent action that the dwellings were occupied and occupiable when he did not challenge the findings of the nuisance abatement proceedings that the dwellings were "unfit for human habitation." Platt has filed а timely appeal, asserting that the district court's dismissal erroneously deprived him of a jury trial.
Upon review, we conclude that the district court properly dismissed the action for the reasons stated in the magistrate judge's opinion and order filed April 8, 1991.
The magistrate judge properly dismissed Platt's claims against the City of Dayton Law Department and for alleged deliberate indifference tо his serious medical needs without prejudice pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). Construing the complaint in the light most favorable to Platt and accepting his factual allegations as true, we conclude that Platt can prove no set of facts in support of his claims that would entitle him to relief from the defendants named in his action. See Meador v. Cabinet For Human Resources,
Furthermore, the district court propеrly granted summary judgment for defendants on Platt's claims that his property was taken without due process of law and that he was denied thе equal protection of the laws due to selective enforcement of the Dayton nuisance abatement ordinance. There is no genuine issue of material fact and defendants are entitled to a judgment as a matter of law with respect tо these claims. See Canderm Pharmacal, Ltd. v. Elder Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
Platt's claim that his property was demolished in violation of the "Barney Frank Amendment" to the CDBG program does nоt state a claim for relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. To state a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a plaintiff must allege that a person acting under color of state law deprived him of a right secured by the Federal Constitution or laws of the United States. See Flagg Bros., Inc. v. Brooks,
Accordingly, the district court's judgment is hereby affirmed pursuant to Rule 9(b)(3), Rules of the Sixth Circuit.
Notes
The Honorable Robert M. McRae, Jr., Senior U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, sitting by designation