United States Ninth Circuit

In an action by a putative class of persons whose financial assets escheated to the California Controller's Office pursuant to California's Unclaimed Property Law (UPL), alleging insufficient notice and mishandling of plaintiffs' property, order granting partial summary judgment to plaintiffs and defendants is affirmed in part where the Eleventh Amendment barred plaintiffs' claims for restitution. However, the order is reversed in part where the state was not constitutionally required to pay any interest under the UPL.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/13/2009
• Decided 08/26/2009
• Published 08/26/2009

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before: BARRY G. SILVERMAN, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William Wayne Palmer & Daniel J. Culhane, Law Offices of William W. Palmer, Sacramento, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants/appellees., Robin B. Johansen, James C. Harrison, Thomas A. Willis, & Margaret R. Prinzing, Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, LLP, San Leandro, CA, for the defendants-appellees/appellants.