United States Ninth Circuit

In an employment discrimination action, dismissal of the complaint for lack of jurisdiction is reversed where district courts have diversity jurisdiction over appeals from state administrative agency decisions when state law places such appeals in state trial courts.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/01/2009
• Decided 07/16/2009
• Published 07/16/2009

Judges

• Before:  DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, FERDINAND F. FERNANDEZ, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bryan P. Neal and Stephen F. Fink, Thompson & Knight L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Terry N. Trieweiler, Trieweiler Law, Whitefish, MT, for the defendant-appellee.