United States Ninth Circuit

A bankruptcy court's decisions are reversed as to: 1) grant of summary judgment to a bankruptcy debtor on female employees' sex discrimination claims; 2) discharge of the employees' statutory, contract and tort claims; 3) a permanent injunction against the employees' pursuit of those claims; 4) a determination that the women failed to show excusable neglect for not filing those claims on time; and 5) an award of sanctions.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2005
• Decided 06/15/2006
• Published 06/15/2006

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge., Before KOZINSKI and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and ROGER T. BENITEZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Eric S. Rossman, Rossman Law Group, PLLC, Boise, ID, and Ruth Elin Auerbach, Glassberg, Pollak & Associates, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Richard Levin and Kurt Ramlo, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the debtors/plaintiff-appellee.