Case Name: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. METROPOLIS HOLDINGS; Edward Gray, Defendants and Mario Disalvo; TFL Entertainment, Inc., A California Corporation, Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-05-25
Citations: 182 F. App'x 714
Docket Number: No. 04-16342
Parties: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. METROPOLIS HOLDINGS; Edward Gray, Defendants and Mario Disalvo; TFL Entertainment, Inc., A California Corporation, Appellants.
Judges: Before: B. FLETCHER, KOZINSKI and FISHER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 182
Pages: 714–714

Head Matter:
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. METROPOLIS HOLDINGS; Edward Gray, Defendants and Mario Disalvo; TFL Entertainment, Inc., A California Corporation, Appellants.
No. 04-16342.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 18, 2006.
Decided May 25, 2006.
James A. Howell, Esq., Securities & Exchange Commission, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Catherine A. Broderick, Attorney, Securities & Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, for Appellant.
Mario Disalvo, Law Offices of Mario Di-salvo, Fresno, CA, pro se.
Before: B. FLETCHER, KOZINSKI and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Because the district court properly determined that the retainer lacked the defining characteristics of a true retainer, see SEC v. Interlink Data Network of Los Angeles, Inc., 77 F.3d 1201, 1205 (9th Cir.1996) (quoting Baranowski v. State Bar of California, 24 Cal.3d 153, 164 n. 4, 154 Cal.Rptr. 752, 593 P.2d 613 (1979)), and because the court did not abuse its discretion in reducing the hourly rate or the number of hours Mario DiSalvo was entitled to be compensated for, see Fair Housing of Marin v. Combs, 285 F.3d 899, 907 (9th Cir.2002), the district court's orders are AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.