United States Ninth Circuit

A district court may require an appellant to secure appellate attorney's fees in a Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 7 bond, but only if an applicable fee-shifting statute includes them in its definition of recoverable costs, and only if the appellee is eligible to recover such fees. Also, a district court may not include in a Rule 7 bond appellate attorney's fees that might be awarded by the court of appeals if that court holds that the appeal is frivolous under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 38.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/14/2007
• Decided 08/23/2007
• Published 08/23/2007

Judges

• Before:  PROCTER HUG, JR., MELVIN BRUNETTI, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William F. Abbott, San Francisco, CA;  Kent F. Brooks, Dallas, TX, for appellant Kamela Wilkinson.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Allured, San Francisco, CA;  Gretchen M. Nelson, Los Angeles, CA;  W. Timothy Needham, Janssen Malloy Needham, Eureka, CA;  J. Garrett Kendrick, Kendrick & Nutley, Beverly Hills, CA;  John L. Burris, Oakland, CA;  Francis O. Scarpulla, Craig C. Corbitt, Zelle Hofmann Voelbel Mason & Gette, San Francisco, CA;  Susan G. Taylor, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Joseph R. Saveri, Lieff Cabraser & Heimann, San Francisco, CA;  John H. Boone, San Francisco, CA;  Josef D. Cooper, Cooper & Kirkham, San Francisco, CA;  Terry Gross, Gross & Belsky, San Francisco, CA;  Guido Saveri, Saveri & Saveri, San Francisco, CA;  Alan R. Plutzik, Bramson Plutzik Mahler & Birhaeuser, Walnut Creek, CA;  Angelina Grace, Law Firm of Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, CA;  Daniel J. Mogin, Mogin Law Firm, San Diego, CA;  Michael J. Flannery, David Danis Law Firm, St. Louis, MO;  Robert Diskint, Critchlow & Diskint, San Rafael, CA, Ben Furth, Furth Firm, San Francisco, CA;  John J. Pentz, Class Action Fairness Group, Maynard, MA;  Michael A. Caddell, Caddell & Chapman, Houston, TX;  Mary L. Needham, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Phillip Aaron Proger, Amy Anne Stathos, Jones Day, Washington, DC, Bruce H. Jackson, Baker & McKenzie, San Francisco, CA;  Peter J. Venaglia, Dornbush Mensch Mandelstam & Schaeffer, New York, NY;  Terri Garland, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA;  Marta Miyar, Bingham McCutchen, San Francisco, CA;  Joel S. Sanders, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, San Francisco, CA;  Bruce A. Colbath, Weil Gotshal and Manges, New York, NY;  Jeffrey Knowles, Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass, San Francisco, CA;  Frederic W. Yerman, Kaye Scholer, New York, NY;  Michael W. Bien, Rosen Bien & Asaro, San Francisco, CA;  Charles Berwanger, Gordon & Rees, San Diego, CA;  James T. Fousekis, DLA Piper US, San Francisco, CA;  Anita Fern Stork, Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA;  Samuel R. Miller, Folger Levin & Kahn, San Francisco, CA;  Marlene J. Williams, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, San Francisco, CA;  Gregory Philip Farnham, Townsend Townsend & Crew, San Francisco, CA;  Matthew W. Hoffman, Elizabeth Runyan Geise, Goodwin Procter, Washington, D.C.;  Ronald J. Dolan, St. Louis, MO;  James L. McGinnis, Gary L. Halling, Shepherd Mullin Richter and Hampton, San Francisco, CA;  Larry Steven Gangnes, Lane Powell, Seattle, WA;  J. Thomas Rosch, Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees., Andrew James Kopp, Oakland, CA;  Steven B. Witman, Metairie, LA, for the intervenors-appellees.