Travelers Property v. Tosco Corporation

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY 

COMPANY OF AMERICA, a Connecticut corporation, Nos. 06-15664 Plaintiff-Appellant, 06-15814 v.  D.C. No. CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, as CV 04-4917 SI successor-in-interest to TOSCO

OPINION

CORPORATION, a Nevada corporation, Defendant-Appellee.  Appeals from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Susan Yvonne Illston, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 11, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed October 20, 2008

Before: A. Wallace Tashima and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges, and Robert J. Timlin,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Tashima

*The Honorable Robert J. Timlin, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

14567 14570 TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY v. CONOCOPHILLIPS

COUNSEL

David C. Capell, Gordon & Rees, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

James L. Day, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.

OPINION

TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

In these consolidated appeals, Travelers Property…