Grunwald

Volume 1 of

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON 

CORPORATION, a Massachusetts corporation, No. 03-15695 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-02051-SBA

MICHAEL SCOTT GRUNWALD, a OPINION California resident, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Saundra B. Armstrong, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 2, 2003—San Francisco, California

Filed March 1, 2005

Before: Edward Leavy, Richard A. Paez, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Paez; Concurrence by Judge Berzon COUNSEL

Michael Blumenfeld, Los Angeles, California, argued the case for the appellant, and Todd M. Lander, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, assisted on the briefs.

Michael D. Early, San Francisco, California, argued the case for the appellee, and Dena L. Narbaitz, San Francisco, Cali- fornia, and Suzy C. Douglass, San Francisco, California, assisted on the briefs.

Mark A. Perry, Washington, D.C., argued the case for amicus curiae…