United States Ninth Circuit

In an action by a Chapter 7 debtor alleging that the bankruptcy trustee and her agents breached a contract that was entered into during the course of the underlying bankruptcy case and was directly related to the administration of bankruptcy estate assets, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where: 1) the bankruptcy court had subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiff's state law breach of contract claim; and 2) the bankruptcy court's approval of the acts plaintiff alleged breached the contract entitled the defendants to derived quasi-judicial immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/03/2009
• Decided 12/21/2009
• Published 12/21/2009

Judges

• BEA, Circuit Judge:, Before: RONALD M. GOULD and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges, and DONALD W. MOLLOY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• M. Lance Jasper, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Jean Leonard Harris, the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eric R. Deitz, Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Goodwin, LLP, San Diego, CA, for Sandra Wittman, defendant-appellee., Manuel Corrales, Jr., Law Office of Manuel Corrales, Jr., San Diego, CA, for Jack Swain, defendant-appellee., Robert F. Semmer and Daniel A. Kaplan, Coughlan, Semmer & Lipman, LLP, San Diego, CA, for Pyle Sims Duncan & Stevenson, APC, defendant-appellee., Daniel M. White and Susan L. Oliver, White, Oliver & Amundson, APC, San Diego, CA, for Grant & Zeko, APC, the defendant-appellee.