United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of summary judgment for defendant, receiver for a marital estate, on a third party complaint alleging abuse of process is affirmed where: 1) state official immunity law applied to the case, 2) Nevada law was applicable, and 3) under Nevada's law of official immunity for court-appointed receivers, denial of summary judgment was proper.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/16/2005
• Decided 03/27/2006
• Published 03/27/2006

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before DOROTHY W. NELSON, W. FLETCHER, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Terence L. Thompson, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, for the defendant-appellant., Lawrence A. Kasten, Phoenix, AZ;  Von S. Heinz, Lewis & Roca, Las Vegas, NV;  Mara E. Fortin, Morris Polich & Purdy, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.