Stephen Yagman v. United States

MEMORANDUM

Petitioner-Appellant Stephen Yagman (“Yagman”) appeals an order denying his motion for a preliminary injunction. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Yagman was convicted of tax evasion, bankruptcy fraud, and money laundering. This Court affirmed his conviction on appeal. See United States v. Yagman, 345 Fed.Appx. 312 (9th Cir. 2009). Yagman filed a motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 , collaterally attacking his bankruptcy conviction. The district court denied the motion. This Court affirmed. Yagman then filed his first coram nobis petition, which the district court denied.

The instant (second) coram nobis petition is Yagman’s third collateral attack on his bankruptcy conviction. With this petition, he moved for “preliminary and permanent injunctions against [the United States], and its agents, employees, agents, assigns, etc., ordering them to vacate and prohibiting them from enforcing [Yag-man’s] criminal convictions or enforcing any laws based on those.convictions....” The district court denied this motion because Yagman “cannot show any likelihood of success on the merits” of his petition, because he “raise[d] the same arguments that ha[d]…