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DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, trustee of Securitized Asset Backed Receivables LLC Trust 2007-NC2 Mortgage-Pass Through Certificates, Series 2007-NC2, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth MCLEOD; Carol McLeod, Husband and Wife; Circle G at Rigg’s Homestead Ranch Homeowners Association; Unknown Parties, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 14-17527
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submission Deferred November 15, 2016
    Resubmitted June 28, 2017  San Francisco, California
    Filed June 28, 2017
    
      Robert W. Norman, Jr., Attorney, Houser & Allison, APC, Irvine, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant
    Beth Findsen, Esquire, Johnson, Find-sen & Kinney, PLLC, Scottsdale, AZ, for Defendants-Appellees-
    Before: LUCERO, GRABER, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed, R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
    
      
       The Honorable Carlos F. Lucero, United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation,
    
   MEMORANDUM

Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. initiated judicial foreclosure proceedings against Kenneth and Carol McLeod after they defaulted on a $771,000 home loan. Because the McLeods had obtained a default judgment against Deutsche Bank in separate state court proceedings, the district court dismissed Deutsche Bank’s complaint as barred by res judicata and the Rooker-Feldman doctrine “without prejudice to seeking relief from the Default Judgment from the state court.”

The Arizona Court of Appeals has now concluded that the default judgment was void ab initio. McLeod v. Deutsche Bank Nat’l Tr. Co., No. 1 CA-CV 15-0504, 2017 WL 2189498, at *4-5 ¶¶ 20-21, 26 (Ariz. Ct. App. May 18, 2017) (unpublished). We therefore vacate the district court’s judgment and remand for further proceedings in light of the decision of the state court.

Each party is to bear its own costs on appeal.

VACATED AND REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.