Language Line Services, Inc. v. Language Services Associates

FILED

SEP 24 2012

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES, INC., No. 11-17757 a Delaware corporation, D.C. No. 5:10-cv-02605-JW Plaintiff-Appellee,

MEMORANDUM*

v.

LANGUAGE SERVICES

ASSOCIATES, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation,

Defendant-Appellant,

and

WILLIAM SCHWARTZ; PATRICK

CURTIN, individuals,

Defendants,

v.

BRYAN LUCAS,

Third-party-defendant- Appellee.

Appeal from United States District Court for the Northern District of California

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. James Ware, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 10, 2012 San Francisco, California

Before: CALLAHAN and WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and SINGLETON,** Senior District Judge

This trade secrets litigation involves a dispute between two competitors,

Language Services Associates (“LSA”) and Language Line Services (“Language

Line”).1 LSA appeals the district court’s order overruling its objections to the

Special Master’s (“Master’s”) denial of LSA’s motion to modify or vacate…