Carolyn Rygg v. David Hulbert

MEMORANDUM

Appellants Carolyn Rygg and her son, Craig Dilworth, engaged in extensive state court litigation with their next-door neighbors, Larry and Kaaren Reinertsen, to resolve a property line dispute. The Washington Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s rulings in favor of the Reinert-sens. See Reinertsen v. Rygg, No. 64661-3-I, 161 Wash.App. 1037 , 2011 WL 1896215 (2011), petition for review denied, 172 Wash.2d 1022 , 268 P.3d 224 (2011).

Dissatisfied with the result of the state court proceedings, appellants filed an action in federal court. Their 200-page amended complaint asserted 50 claims against 21 defendants. The district court dismissed all but two of the claims in a detailed order, and entered judgment against appellants on the remaining two claims following a jury trial. We affirm the judgment and these rulings in a separate memorandum disposition filed simultaneously with this one.

After the district court issued its dismissal judgment, appellants filed a second federal action. Their complaint in the second federal action was largely duplicative of their amended complaint in the first federal action. It named many of the same defendants, as well as lawyers…