Coto Settlement v. Ian Eisenberg

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

COTO SETTLEMENT, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 08-35966 v.  D.C. No. 08-cv-00125-RSM IAN EISENBERG and OLYMPIC

OPINION

TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.,

Defendants-Appellees..  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ricardo S. Martinez, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 14, 2009—Seattle, Washington

Filed January 29, 2010

Before: Richard D. Cudahy,* Senior Circuit Judge, Johnnie B. Rawlinson and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Cudahy

*The Honorable Richard D. Cudahy, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, sitting by designation.

1763 1766 COTO SETTLEMENT v. EISENBERG

COUNSEL

Ernst Leonard, Friedman & Feiger, L.L.P., Dallas, Texas, and Jeremy Robert Larson, Foster Pepper & Shefelman, Seattle, Washington, for the appellant.

Derek A. Newman and Derek Linke, Newman & Newman, Attorneys at Law, Seattle, Washington, for the appellees.

OPINION

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge:

The question presented here is whether the district court erred in dismissing the claims of…