Boston Telecommunications Grou v. Robert Wood

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BOSTON TELECOMMUNICATIONS  No. 08-16358

GROUP, INC.; RODERICK MARSHALL,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, D.C. No. v.  3:02-CV-05971-

JSW

ROBERT WOOD,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Jeffrey S. White, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 8, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed December 9, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, David R. Thompson and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace

16017 BOSTON TELECOMMUNICATIONS v. WOOD 16021

COUNSEL

Steven M. Cowley, Esq., Boston, Massachusetts, for plaintiffs-appellants Boston Telecommunications Group, Inc. and Roderick Marshall.

Susan K. Jamison, Esq., San Francisco, California, for defendant-appellee Robert Wood.

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants Boston Telecommunications Group, Inc. (BTG) and Roderick Marshall (collectively, Marshall) appeal from the judgment of dismissal of claims against defendant-appellee Robert Wood arising out of an allegedly 16022 …