Lgs Architects Inc v. Concordia Homes

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LGS ARCHITECTS, INC., a Nevada  Corporation; LGS NEVADA, a No. 04-16677 Nevada Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants,  D.C. No.

CV-04-00574-RCJ

v.

OPINION

CONCORDIA HOMES OF NEVADA,

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Robert C. Jones, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 13, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed January 11, 2006

Before: Robert R. Beezer, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

343 346 LGS ARCHITECTS v. CONCORDIA HOMES OF NEVADA

COUNSEL

Michael J. McCue, Lewis and Roca LLP, Las Vegas, Nevada, argued the cause for the appellants; W. West Allen, Lewis and Roca LLP, Las Vegas, Nevada, was on the briefs.

John M. Naylor, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, Nevada, argued the cause for the appellee; Samuel S. Lionel, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, Nevada, was on the brief.

OPINION

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether an architectural firm is entitled to a preliminary injunction prohibiting a client from using its LGS…