Theis Research, Inc. v. Brown & Bain

400 F.3d 659 THEIS RESEARCH, INC., an Illinois corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BROWN & BAIN, a California and Arizona law firm, and such present and former Brown & Bain partners, associates, and other personnel responsible for the management and trial of all litigation involving Peter F. Theis and Theis Research, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. No. 02-16839. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 5, 2003. Filed October 20, 2004. Amended February 18, 2005. Paul R. Johnson, Oakland, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant. Paul Renne, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Ronald M. Whyte, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-20645-RMW. Before THOMPSON and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, * Senior District Judge. ORDER The opinion in Theis Research, Inc. v. Brown & Bain , published at 386 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir.2004), is amended as follows: 1. At page 1184, the first sentence of the last beginning paragraph on that page is deleted. The deleted sentence reads: Our conclusion that we measure the amount in controversy by the amount at stake in the…