Case Name: ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES, INC., a Tennessee corporation; National Bank of Commerce, Trustee of the Promenade Trust; Sofa Entertainment Inc., a California corporation; Jane Meadows Allen, Trustee of the Allen Family Revocable Living Trust; Jerry Leiber, individually d/b/a Jerry Leiber Music; Mike Stoller, individually d/b/a Mike Stoller Music; Julian J. Aberbach, an individual; Alfred Wertheimer, an individual, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PASSPORT VIDEO, a business of unknown form and origin; Passport International Productions, Inc.; Passport International Productions of California, Inc., a California corporation; Dante J. Pugliese, an individual, Defendants. and Passport International Entertainment, LLC, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-05-29
Citations: 334 F. App'x 810
Docket Number: No. 08-55084
Parties: ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES, INC., a Tennessee corporation; National Bank of Commerce, Trustee of the Promenade Trust; Sofa Entertainment Inc., a California corporation; Jane Meadows Allen, Trustee of the Allen Family Revocable Living Trust; Jerry Leiber, individually d/b/a Jerry Leiber Music; Mike Stoller, individually d/b/a Mike Stoller Music; Julian J. Aberbach, an individual; Alfred Wertheimer, an individual, Plaintiffs—Appellees, v. PASSPORT VIDEO, a business of unknown form and origin; Passport International Productions, Inc.; Passport International Productions of California, Inc., a California corporation; Dante J. Pugliese, an individual, Defendants. and Passport International Entertainment, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: RYMER, KLEINFELD and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 334
Pages: 810–812

Head Matter:
ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES, INC., a Tennessee corporation; National Bank of Commerce, Trustee of the Promenade Trust; Sofa Entertainment Inc., a California corporation; Jane Meadows Allen, Trustee of the Allen Family Revocable Living Trust; Jerry Leiber, individually d/b/a Jerry Leiber Music; Mike Stoller, individually d/b/a Mike Stoller Music; Julian J. Aberbach, an individual; Alfred Wertheimer, an individual, Plaintiffs—Appellees, v. PASSPORT VIDEO, a business of unknown form and origin; Passport International Productions, Inc.; Passport International Productions of California, Inc., a California corporation; Dante J. Pugliese, an individual, Defendants. and Passport International Entertainment, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 08-55084.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 5, 2009.
Filed May 29, 2009.
George R. Hedges, Esquire, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, Kinh-Luan Tran, Esquire, Lee & Tran, Los Angeles, CA, Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Michael R. Blaha, Esquire, Law Offices of Michael Blaha, Santa Monica, CA, Defendants.
Allen Hyman, Law Offices of Allen Hy-man, North Hollywood, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before: RYMER, KLEINFELD and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Passport International Entertainment, LLC (PIE) appeals the district court's order adding it as a judgment debtor. We affirm.
The district court did not abuse its discretion in amending the judgment. See Cigna Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. Polaris Pictures Corp., 159 F.3d 412, 421 (9th Cir.1998). Substantial evidence supports the district court's finding that PIE is a successor corporation to Passport International Productions (PIP) and Passport International Productions of California (PIP-CA), and that the asset transfers were fraudulent and undertaken for the purpose of escaping liability. See Cal. Civ.Code § 3489.04, .07; McClellan v. Northridge Park Townhome Owners Ass'n., 89 Cal.App.4th 746, 107 Cal.Rptr.2d 702, 707-08 (Cal.Ct.App.2001). PIE has the same shareholder, same directors, same assets, and same business as PIP and PIP-CA did. The timing of the assets transfer also supports the district court's conclusion that PIE is "merely a continuation" of PIP and PIP-CA. See McClellan, 107 Cal.Rptr.2d at 707. At most, Florence Pugliese's supposed foreclosure of her security interests was one part of a series of fraudulent transfers undertaken to avoid liability to creditors. See id.', cf. Katzir's Floor & Home Design, Inc. v. M-MLS. com, 394 F.3d 1143, 1150-51 (9th Cir.2004).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
. Assuming without deciding that PIE may challenge whether joinder of Florence Pug-liese is necessary, it failed to do so in its opening brief. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996). The district court effectively resolved the issue by denying her motion to intervene, and even were we to consider a joinder claim now, cf. UOP v. United States, 99 F.3d 344, 347 (9th Cir.1996), we see no basis for holding differently. See Fed.R.Civ.P. 19, 24(a)(2).