FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SHAWN SAMSON; JACK KASHANI, 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, No. 09-55835 v.  D.C. No. 2:09-cv-01433-

NAMA HOLDINGS, LLC, MMM-PJW

Defendant-Appellee. 

SHAWN SAMSON; JACK KASHANI,  No. 09-56394 Plaintiffs-Appellants, D.C. No. v.  2:09-cv-01433-

NAMA HOLDINGS, LLC, MMM-PJW

Defendant-Appellee.  ORDER

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Margaret M. Morrow, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted December 6, 2010* Pasadena, California

Filed December 15, 2010

Before: Stephen S. Trott and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges, and Rudi M. Brewster, Senior District Judge.**

*The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). **The Honorable Rudi M. Brewster, Senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, sitting by designation.

20091 20092 SAMSON v. NAMA HOLDINGS

COUNSEL

Roger J. Magnuson, Kent J. Schmidt, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Irvine, CA; Kathleen M. Sullivan, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, New York, NY; Richard A. Schirtzer, Susan R. Estrich, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Shawn Samson and Jack Kashani.

Howard J. Rubinroit, Ronald C. Cohen, James M. Harris, Sid- ley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, California, for NAMA Hold- ings, LLC.

ORDER

As to Appeal No. 09-55835, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court in its May 20, 2009 Order Denying Plaintiffs’ Motion to Compel Arbitration. Appeal No. 09- 56394, challenging the district court’s award of prevailing party attorneys’ fees to Defendant, is therefore moot.

APPEAL NO. 09-55835: AFFIRMED.

APPEAL NO. 09-56394: MOOT.

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