Hunt

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BRANDY HUNT, on behalf of herself  and others similarly situated;

BRIAN CASTILLO,

No. 07-16418 Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-04993-MJJ

IMPERIAL MERCHANT SERVICES, INC.,

OPINION

dba Check Recovery Systems, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Martin J. Jenkins, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 13, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed March 31, 2009

Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Ronald M. Gould, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

3881 3884 HUNT v. IMPERIAL MERCHANT SERVICES

COUNSEL

Paul S. Arons, Law Office of Paul Arons, Friday Harbor, Washington, and O. Randolph Bragg, Horowitz, Horowitz & Associates, Chicago, Illinois, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Clark Garen, Law Offices of Clark Garen, Palm Springs, Cali- fornia, for the defendant-appellant.

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Class action defendant Imperial Merchant Services, Inc. (“IMS”) appeals the district court’s interlocutory order requir- ing it to pay the costs of…