United States Ninth Circuit

In an action against defendants raising numerous causes of action based on the sale of the health insurance coverage, an award of fees and costs to plaintiff imposed after the case was remanded to the state court from which it was removed by defendant, is reversed as defendant had an objectively reasonable basis for removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2007
• Decided 11/19/2007
• Published 11/19/2007

Judges

• RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge:, Before: STEPHEN S. TROTT, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Andre J. Cronthall (briefed and argued), Fred R. Puglisa (briefed), Catherine La Tempa (briefed), Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., A. Douglas Mastroianni, Peter L. Weinberger & Associates, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.