United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit brought by former owners of minority interests in nine general partnerships involving cellular telephone businesses, alleging that defendants-AT&T Wireless and subsidiaries violated Washington State law when AT&T sold its controlling interests in those partnerships to affiliated entities, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed pursuant to the state supreme court's answer to a certified question, which found that a controlling partner does not violate the duty of loyalty where the controlling partner causes the partnership to sell its assets to an affiliated party.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2007
• Published 11/21/2007

Judges

• Before PAMELA ANN RYMER, MARSHA S. BERZON, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Oitzinger, Helena, Montana, Thomas W. Hayton, Robert G. Nylander, Philip Edgerton Cutler Cutler Nylander & Hayton, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brendan T. Mangan, Heller Ehrman LLP, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellees.