Comedy Club, Inc. v. Improv West Association

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 No. 05-56100 corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, D.C. No. v.  CV-03-08134-WMB

ORDER AND

IMPROV WEST ASSOCIATES, a

AMENDED

California Limited Partnership;

OPINION

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 937 938 COMEDY CLUB v. IMPROV WEST ASSOCIATES Filed September 7, 2007 Amended January 23, 2008

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

Opinion by Judge…