United States Ninth Circuit

Judgment reversing a remand order in a dispute involving defendant's removal of claims to bankruptcy court is reversed since unfair competition law claims filed by plaintiffs, state attorney general and municipality, constitute police or regulatory power actions that cannot be removed to bankruptcy court under 28 U.S.C. section 1452(a).

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/18/2005
• Decided 01/10/2006
• Published 01/10/2006

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge., Before THOMAS, PAEZ, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Tom Greene, Ken Alex, Danette Valdez, and Anne Burr, San Francisco, CA, for appellant Attorney General., Dennis J. Herrera, Owen Clements, Theresa Mueller, David Campos, San Francisco, CA, for appellant City & County of San Francisco.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan S. Gover, Mike Stenglein, Stacey Russell, Dewey Ballatine LLP, Houston, TX, and Michael P. Kessler, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, for the appellees.