United States Ninth Circuit

A party must first obtain leave of the bankruptcy court before it initiates an action in another forum against a bankruptcy trustee or other officer appointed by the bankruptcy court for acts done in the officer's official capacity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/17/2005
• Decided 08/30/2005
• Published 08/30/2005

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge., Before: THOMAS and FISHER, Circuit Judges, and ROBART, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Malcolm Loeb, Leo R. Beus and Richard R. Thomas, Beus Gilbert PLLC, Scottsdale, AZ;  Allen Steyer and Edward Egan Smith, Steyer Lowenthal Boodrookas Alvarez & Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kristin Linsley Myles and Susan Traub Boyd, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA;  Joseph F. Coyne, Jr. and Michelle Sherman, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for appellees and cross-appellants Fort James., James C. Krieg and Stan G. Roman, Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Reilley & Roman LLP, San Francisco, CA, for appellee and cross-appellant McGuire Woods.