United States Ninth Circuit

In an action based on defendant's purported tortious interference with a substantial inter vivos gift that plaintiff's late husband intended to give to her, judgment for plaintiff is reversed where a prior Texas probate court judgment should have been afforded preclusive effect because it was the earliest final judgment on matters relevant to the proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/09/2003
• Decided 03/22/2010
• Published 03/22/2010

Judges

• BEEZER, Circuit Judge., Before: BEEZER, KLEINFELD, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• G. Eric Brunstad, Jr., Bingham McCutchen, Hartford, CT, for the plaintiff-counter-defendant/appellant-cross-appellee., Sheila S. Kato and Kent L. Richland, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-counter-claimant/appellee-cross-appellant.