Larry Donnell Dunlap, an Arizona state prisoner, appeals pro se from the district court’s order dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against multiple defendants alleging violation of his Fourteenth Amendment rights. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo the district court’s dismissal for failure to state a claim under the screening provisions of 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915A, Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir.2000), and 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii), Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1 U.S. 43, 69, 117 S.Ct. 1055, 137 L.Ed.2d 170 (1997) (<HOLDING>). AFFIRMED. ** This disposition is not
holding private actors are not acting under the color of state law for the purposes of section 1983 liability holding that states and state officials acting in their official capacities are not persons subject to liability under  1983 holding that states and state officials acting in their official capacity are not persons under  1983 holding states are not persons for the purposes of section 1983 holding as a matter of law that police departments are purely instrumentalities of the municipality with no separate identity thus they are not persons for purposes of  1983 and not capable of being sued under  1983