Western Filter Corp. v. Argan, Inc.

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

WESTERN FILTER CORPORATION, 

Plaintiff-counter-defendant- Appellant, v. No. 07-55535 ARGAN, INC., a Delaware Corporation; RAINER BOSSELMANN,  D.C. No.

CV-05-03548-SGL

an individual; ARTHUR F. TRUDEL,

OPINION

an individual; HAYWARD MILLER III, an individual, Defendants-counter-claimants- Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen G. Larson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 3, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed August 25, 2008

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges, and James K. Singleton,* Senior District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Tallman

*The Honorable James K. Singleton, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

11635 WESTERN FILTER CORP. v. ARGAN, INC. 11637

COUNSEL

Gregory A. Long, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellant.

Joseph L. Clasen, Robinson & Cole, LLP, Stamford, Connect- icut, and Thomas J. Dolan, Robinson & Cole, LLP, New York, New…