United States Ninth Circuit

In a contract suit brought by a successor company against the former CEO of the predecessor, dismissal the federal suit under the Younger abstention doctrine is reversed and remanded in part as the dismissal of one count attempting to secure a binding and enforceable court judgment requiring the CEO to repay an earlier loan could not be justified under Younger, the Anti-Injunction Act, or the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/05/2007
• Decided 08/13/2007
• Published 08/13/2007

Judges

• Before:  WARREN J. FERGUSON, EUGENE E. SILER, JR., and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon E. Krischer (argued) and Larry A. Walraven (briefed), O'Melveny & Myers, Newport Beach, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William E. Johnson (briefed and argued), Law Offices of Richard E. Hodge, Inc., Malibu, CA, for the defendant-appellee.