United States Ninth Circuit

In bankruptcy court, a lawyer can be the client's implied agent to receive service of process when the lawyer repeatedly represented that client in the underlying bankruptcy case, and where the totality of the circumstances demonstrates the intent of the client to convey such authority.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/02/2004
• Published 11/02/2004

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: THOMPSON, SILVERMAN, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Julie M. McCoy, Newport Beach, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Peter C. Anderson, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.