United States Ninth Circuit

In plaintiff's appeal from the district court's order granting movant-bank's motion to modify a preliminary injunction freezing the assets of the underlying defendants, the order is vacated where the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction entered by the district court dissolved when the default judgment issued, and thus the district court's subsequent modification order was void ab initio.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2009
• Decided 01/12/2010
• Published 01/12/2010

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sean A. O'Keefe (argued), O'Keefe & Associates Law Corporation, P .C., Newport Beach, CA, Robert W. Pitts, Law Office of Robert W. Pitts, Irvine, CA, for plaintiff-appellant U.S. Philips Corporation.


• For Appellees:
  
• James M. Andriola (argued), Reed Smith LLP, New York, NY, Tony L. Richardson, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for intervenor-appellee KBC Bank N.V.