Livid Holdings Ltd. v. Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.

403 F.3d 1050 LIVID HOLDINGS LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SALOMON SMITH BARNEY, INC.; Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc.; BNY Clearing Services LLC, Successor in interest to Schroders & Co, Inc.; Andrew Van Der Vord; Robert Chamine; Michael Dura; Robert Hamecs; William Hurst; Leon Kalvaria; Ilan Kaufthal; John O'Donogue; Herc Segalas; Jed Sherwindt; James Stone; Frederick Taylor; Samuel Weinhoff, Defendants-Appellees. No. 03-35374. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted October 5, 2004. Filed April 6, 2005. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Marc M. Seltzer (argued), Susman Godfrey, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, and Paula K. Jacobi (on the briefs), Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, LLP, Chicago, IL, for the plaintiff-appellant. William F. Alderman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington; John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-02-01607-JCC. Before D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges. D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge. 1 Livid Holdings, Ltd. ("Livid") appeals the district court's…