Comedy Club, Inc. v. Improv West

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

COMEDY CLUB, INC., a Louisiana  corporation; AL COPELAND INVESTMENTS, INC., a Louisiana corporation, No. 05-55739 Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-08134-WMB

IMPROV WEST ASSOCIATES, a California Limited Partnership; CALIFORNIA COMEDY, INC., a California corporation, Defendants-Appellees. 

COMEDY CLUB, INC., a Louisiana  corporation; AL COPELAND INVESTMENTS, INC., a Louisiana corporation, No. 05-56100 Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-08134-WMB

IMPROV WEST ASSOCIATES, a

OPINION

California Limited Partnership; CALIFORNIA COMEDY, INC., a California corporation, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California William Matthew Byrne, Senior Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 17, 2007—Pasadena, California 11825 11826 COMEDY CLUB v. IMPROV WEST ASSOCIATES Filed September 7, 2007

Before: Jerome Farris and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Kevin Thomas Duffy,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Senior…