United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from the district court's denial of an injunction barring defendant from pursuing an action against plaintiff in Belgium, the order is reversed where: 1) the district court applied the wrong legal standard by requiring that the claims in the domestic and foreign action be identical, instead of engaging in the required functional inquiry concerning dispositiveness; and 2) the district court relied on the clearly erroneous factual determination that defendant's Belgian claims, other than goodwill indemnities, were available apart from termination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/03/2009
• Published 11/03/2009

Judges

• Before:  RAYMOND C. FISHER and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges, and MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR., District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard J. Grabowski, Brian M. Hoffstadt (argued) and Edward S. Chang, Jones Day, Irvine, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce H. Jackson (argued) and Jerry Salcido, Baker & McKenzie LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.