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443 F. App'x 562

Ruffin v. Gray

U.S. Courts of Appeals

Decided October 25, 2011

U.S. Courts of Appeals · decided 2011-10-25

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2018

3 district ·

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Stevens v. Department of Treasury · McKinney v. Dole

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 2011-10-25

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¶1JUDGMENT

PER CURIAM.

¶2This case was considered on the record from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and on the briefs and arguments by counsel. It is

¶3ORDERED that the judgment of the district court be affirmed.

¶4Appellant Thomas Ruffin, Jr., brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Mayor Vincent Gray and Officer Myisha McCo-naughey of the Metropolitan Police Department alleging violations of his rights under the Fourth and Ninth Amendments to the United States Constitution arising from his arrest and detention based on “false allegations” and “on the basis of his race, color, and ethnic background as a black man of African descent.” [JA 4, 6]. The district court dismissed Ruffin’s claim “for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 12(b)(6). Regarding all but one of the issues Ruffin raises on appeal, we affirm for the reasons stated in the district’s court order filed on September 13, 2010.

¶5We also affirm with respect to the remaining issue. In district court, the appel-lees moved to dismiss or in the alternative for summary judgment. Attached to ap-pellees’ motion were the police report of Ruffin’s arrest and Ruffin’s claim letter and “No Paper Notification Form”; attached to Ruffin’s response was his declaration related to the facts leading up to his arrest. The district court, however, made clear that it considered only “the factual allegations set forth in the complaint, documents attached to or incorporated by reference in the complaint, and matters subject to judicial notice.” Fed. R. Civ. Proc. 12(b)(6). [JA 76]. Although the court did not expressly exclude the attachments to both appellees’ motion and Ruffin’s response, the record reflects that it considered only the items listed in Rule 12(b)(6). See Ruffin v. Fenty, No. 1:09-cv-01237, slip op. at 2-7 (D.D.C. Sept. 13, 2010). Accordingly, the district court did not err in failing to convert the motion to dismiss to a summary judgment motion pursuant *564to Rule 12(d). McKinney v. Dole, 765 F.2d 1129, 1134 (D.C.Cir.1985), abrogated on other ground by Stevens v. Dep’t of Treasury, 500 U.S. 1, 11, 111 S.Ct. 1562, 114 L.Ed.2d 1 (1991) (conversion required under Rule 12(d) only where “[district [c]ourt considered materials outside the pleadings in dismissing the case”).

¶6Pursuant to D.C. Circuit Rule 36, this disposition will not be published. The Clerk is directed to withhold issuance of the mandate herein until seven days after resolution of any timely petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc. See Fed. R.App. P. 41(b); D.C.Cir. Rule 41(a)(1).

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