Stephanie-Cardona Ll v. Smith's Food

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

STEPHANIE-CARDONA LLC, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 05-15360 v.  D.C. No.

SMITH’S FOOD AND DRUG CENTERS, CV-02-00783-HDM

INC.,

Defendant-Appellee. 

STEPHANIE-CARDONA LLC, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-15543 v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-0783-HDM

SMITH’S FOOD AND DRUG CENTERS,

INC., OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Howard D. McKibben, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 9, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed February 6, 2007

Before: Alfred T. Goodwin, A. Wallace Tashima, and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Goodwin

1455 1458 STEPHANIE-CARDONA LLC v. SMITH’S FOOD

COUNSEL

Gordon H. Warren, Kirk B. Lenhard, Jones Vargas, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee.

James D. Kilroy, Snell & Wilmer, Denver, Colorado, for the defendant-appellee-cross-appellant.

OPINION

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal and cross-appeal grew out of a contract dispute between…