United States Ninth Circuit

In an action seeking to recover money paid by Plaintiff to an officer posing as a corrupt immigration official, judgment for Plaintiff is reversed, where the doctrine of in pari delicto barred Plaintiff from recovering the money.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/24/2008
• Decided 07/10/2009
• Published 07/10/2009

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before PROCTER HUG, JR., GLENN L. ARCHER , and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph P. Russoniello, U.S. Attorney, Barbara J. Valliere, Hartley M.K. West (argued), and Stephanie M. Hinds, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellant United States., Erik Babcock (argued), Oakland, CA, and Jonathan M. Kaufman, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellee Abdul Masih Kardoh.