United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's finding, that a French court's orders against plaintiff were unenforceable in the United States, is reversed where the district court had no personal jurisdiction over the French party defendants, as the defendant did nothing wrongful in bringing the suit against plaintiff in France.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/24/2005
• Decided 08/23/2004
• Published 08/23/2004

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, and FERGUSON, O'SCANNLAIN, HAWKINS, TASHIMA, W. FLETCHER, FISHER, GOULD, PAEZ, CLIFTON, and BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ann Brick, ACLU, San Francisco, California;  John B. Morris, Jr., Alan B. Davidson, Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC, for amici American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, et al., Jodie L. Kelley, Brian Hauck, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC;  Stephen A. Bokat, Robin S. Conrad, Joshua A. Ulman, National Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, DC, Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Washington, DC, for amici Chamber of Commerce of the United States, et al., and for amicus Center for Democracy.


• For Appellees:
  
• Randol Schoenberg, Burris & Schoenberg, Los Angeles, CA;  Robert A. Christopher, Coudert Brothers, Palo Alto, CA;  Mark D. Lebow, Sokolow Carreras, New York, NY, for the defendants-appellants., Michael Traynor, Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddelson & Tatum, San Francisco, CA;  Robert C. Vanderet, O'Melveney & Myers, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.