Stuart Chandler v. State Farm Mutual Automobile I

Filing 920100317

Opinion

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
STUART CHANDLER, individually and on behalf of a class of others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 09-55123 D.C. No. 2:08-cv-03184GAF-E Central District of California, Los Angeles ORDER

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted March 5, 2010--Pasadena, California Filed March 17, 2010 Before: Pamela Ann Rymer and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges, and Stephen M. McNamee,* Senior District Judge.

*The Honorable Stephen M. McNamee, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL Don Howarth, Howarth & Smith, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellant. Kevin J. Dunne, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, San Francisco, California, (argued); Kirk C. Jenkins, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for the defendant-appellee.

ORDER We affirm for the reasons stated by the district court in its published opinion at 596 F.Supp.2d 1314 (C.D. Cal. 2008), attached as Appendix A. AFFIRMED.

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