United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from the District Court's appointment of a receiver to manage a mall owned by Defendants, the order is affirmed where: 1) federal law governs the appointment of a receiver where jurisdiction is based on diversity; and 2) District Courts may consider a broad range of factors in determining whether to appoint a receiver.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/04/2009
• Published 03/04/2009

Judges

• Before:  RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD C. TALLMAN and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• B. Newal Squyres, Robert A. Faucher, and Kevin C. Braley, Holland & Hart, LLP, on behalf of plaintiff-appellee Canada Life Assurance Co., Emil R. Berg, Greener Burke Shoemaker P.A., on behalf of defendants-appellants Alfred R. LaPeter and Sharon R. LaPeter as Trustees for the LaPeter 1985 Living Trust.