Avista Corp. Inc. v. Sanders County

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AVISTA CORPORATION INC., 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 07-35321

DORRIEN H. WOLFE; DIANE LARSON;

LESLIE RICKEY; SEAN M. STEPHENS;  D.C. No.

CV-05-00201-JCL

JAMES R. DOYLE; BONNIE M.

SHARP; RONALD GENE SHARP; OPINION

RONALD SCOTT SHARP; GREGORY

STEWART SHARP; SANDERS COUNTY,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Jeremiah C. Lynch, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 11, 2008 Submission deferred August 11, 2008 Billings, Montana Resubmitted December 11, 2008

Filed December 11, 2008

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Stephen Reinhardt and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thomas

16257 AVISTA CORP. v. WOLFE 16261

COUNSEL

Christian T. Nygren, Milodragovich, Dale, Steinbrenner & Nygren, Missoula, Montana, for appellant Avista Corp., Inc.

Gregory G. Schultz, Law Offices of Gregory Schultz, Mis- soula, Montana, for appellees Dorrien H. Wolfe, Diane Lar- son, Leslie Rickey, Sean M. Stephens, James R. Doyle, Bonnie M. Sharp, Ronald Gene Sharp,…