Killinger

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SOUTH FERRY LP, # 2, individually  and on behalf of all others similarly situated, No. 06-35511 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-01599-JCC

KERRY K. KILLINGER; DEANNA W.

OPINION

OPPENHEIMER; WASHINGTON

MUTUAL, INC.,

Defendants-Appellants.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington John C. Coughenour, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 8, 2008—Seattle, Washington

Filed September 9, 2008

Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

12533 SOUTH FERRY LP v. KILLINGER 12537

COUNSEL

Stephen M. Rummage, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, Washington, and Jay B. Kasner (argued), and Scott D. Mus- off, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, New York, for the appellants.

Melvyn I. Weiss, Lori G. Feldman, and John Rediker, Mil- berg Weiss & Bershad LLP, New York, New York, and Stu- art J. Guber and James Evangelista, Motley Rice LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, and Professor Arthur R. Miller (argued), New York University School of Law, for…