Konstantin Kupfer v. Karim Salma

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

OCT 27 2016

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

In re: KONSTANTIN KUPFER; No. 14-16697

MARGARITA KUPFER,

D.C. No. 3:14-cv-00668-WHO Debtors.

------------------------------ MEMORANDUM*

KONSTANTIN KUPFER; MARGARITA

KUPFER,

Debtors-Appellants,

v.

KARIM SALMA; ROBERT SALMA, as Trustees of the Salma Family Trust;

LINDSEY S. BRUEL; RIYAD R.

SALMA; LAITH K. SALMA,

Creditors-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California William Horsley Orrick III, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 17, 2016 San Francisco, California

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. Before: GRABER and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges, and BENNETT,** District Judge.

Debtors Konstantin and Margarita Kupfer appeal an order of the district

court, which in turn affirmed an order of the bankruptcy court. The underlying

order allowed Creditors’ entire claim for attorney fees and costs, arising from a

pre-petition…