United States Ninth Circuit

Settlement agreement where party agreed not to declare bankruptcy does not have collateral estoppel effect on a later bankruptcy petition for fraud claims where fraud claims were not incorporated into the original settlement agreement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2001
• Decided 01/14/2002
• Published 01/14/2002

Judges

• NOONAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  NOONAN, WARDLAW, Circuit Judges and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joshua D. Wayser, Santa Monica, California, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Blue, Los Angeles, California, for the appellee.