United States Ninth Circuit

A complaint against brokerage firms under California's Unfair Competition Law, challenging methods used in selling and marketing callable certificates of deposit, was not exclusively within federal jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/14/2003
• Decided 08/25/2003
• Published 08/25/2003

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GOODWIN and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George S. Trevor and James V. Weixel, Jr., Trevor & Weixel LLP, Corte Madera, CA, Scot D. Bernstein, Law Offices of Scot D. Bernstein, Mather Field, CA, and Tracy Pride Stoneman, Tracy Pride Stoneman, P.C., Westcliffe, CO, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William F. Alderman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.;  James A. Hughes, Sullwold & Hughes, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc.;  Gregory P. Lindstrom, Joshua Holian, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.