United States Ninth Circuit

In a breach of contract action by employees of foreign suppliers to a U.S. retailer based on a code of conduct included in Defendant's supply contracts specifying labor standards suppliers must meet, the dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where the code of conduct did not create a duty on the part of Defendant to monitor the suppliers, and did not provide Plaintiffs a right of action against Defendant as third-party beneficiaries.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/08/2009
• Decided 07/10/2009
• Published 07/10/2009

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge:, Before BETTY B. FLETCHER, RAYMOND C. FISHER, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terrence P. Collingsworth, Natacha Thys, Conrad & Scherer, Washington, D.C.;  Dan Stormer, Anne Richardson, Lisa Holder, Hadsell & Stormer, Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants., Deborah J. La Fetra, Damien M. Schiff, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for the amicus Pacific Legal Foundation., Daniel J. Popeo, Richard A. Samp, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C.;  Michael A. Carvin, Daniel R. Volkmuth, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for the amicus Washington Legal Foundation and Allied Educational Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• James N. Penrod, Thomas M. Peterson, Amy M. Spicer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.