Case ID: f-appx_677/html/0342-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Eutiquio Acevedo MENDEZ; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Los Angeles Times Communications LLC; et al., Intervenors-Appellees, and ACLU of Southern California; et al., Movants-Appellees, v. The CITY OF GARDENA, Erroneously Sued As The City of Gardena; et al., Defendants-Appellants.
    No. 15-56090
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted February 6, 2017 Pasadena, California
    Filed February 13, 2017
    Mark Richard Pachowicz, I, Esquire, Attorney, Law Offices of Mark Pachowicz, Camarillo, CA, R. Samuel Paz, Law Offices of R. Samuel Paz, Culver City, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Eutiquio Acevedo Mendez
    Mark Richard Pachowicz, I, Esquire, Attorney, Law Offices of Mark Pachowicz, Camarillo, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Jose Amador
    Sonia Maria Mercado, Law Offices of R. Samuel' Paz, Culver City, CA, Mark Richard Pachowicz, I, Esquire, Attorney, Law Offices of Mark Pachowicz, Camarillo, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Ricardo Diaz Zef-erino, Juan Jesus Diaz, Bonifacia M. Zef-erino
    Daniel A. Laidman, Esquire, Kelli L. Sager, Esquire, Attorney, Rochelle Lyn Wilcox, Esquire, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for In-tervenors-Appellees Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, The Associated Press, Bloomberg LP
    Scott Wm. Davenport, Mildred Katherine O’Linn, Esquire, Attorney, Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellants The City of Gardena, Edward Medrano, Christopher Calvin Cuff, Christopher Anthony Mendez, Christopher Andrew Sanderson, Matthew Steven-Fong
    Peter Bibring, Esquire, ACLU of Southern California, Pasadena, CA, for Movant-Appellee
    Bruce D. Brown, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and 26 Media Organizations
    Before: KLEINFELD, IKUTA, and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.
   MEMORANDUM

The City of Gardena, California (Garde-na) appeals the district court’s denial of a temporary stay pending appeal of a post-judgment order granting a motion to intervene and granting a motion to unseal certain evidence in the summary judgment record. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 because the district court’s post-judgment order “disposed completely of the issues raised in the post-judgment proceedings.” Nat. Res. Def. Council) Inc. v. Sw. Marine Inc., 242 F.3d 1163, 1166 (9th Cir. 2001).

On appeal, Gardena challenges only the district court’s denial of a temporary stay pending appeal. Gardena concedes that its appeal is moot unless it falls within the exception for cases capable of repetition, yet evading review. To satisfy the “capable of repetition” prong of this doctrine, “there must be a ‘reasonable expectation’ or a ‘demonstrated probability that the same controversy will recur involving the same complaining party.” Murphy v. Hunt, 455 U.S. 478, 482, 102 S.Ct. 1181, 71 L.Ed.2d 353 (1982) (per curiam). Gardena failed to make such a showing; it did not attempt to demonstrate a reasonable expectation or probability of recurrence in its opening brief, and it conceded at oral argument that it could not offer evidence that there is a reasonable expectation that it will be subject to the same action again. Accordingly, we cannot say that the issue presented here is capable of repetition, yet evading review, and we must dismiss the appeal as moot.

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