Case Name: In the Matter of TV, LLC, A California Limited Liability Company, Debtor, City of El Monte, for itself and as successor-in-interest to the El Monte Community Redevelopment Agency, Appellant, v. Isaac Zfaty and Zfaty Burns, Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-12-15
Citations: 588 F. App'x 587
Docket Number: No. 12-56445
Parties: In the Matter of TV, LLC, A California Limited Liability Company, Debtor, City of El Monte, for itself and as successor-in-interest to the El Monte Community Redevelopment Agency, Appellant, v. Isaac Zfaty and Zfaty Burns, Appellees.
Judges: Before: SILVERMAN, BEA, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 588
Pages: 587–588

Head Matter:
In the Matter of TV, LLC, A California Limited Liability Company, Debtor, City of El Monte, for itself and as successor-in-interest to the El Monte Community Redevelopment Agency, Appellant, v. Isaac Zfaty and Zfaty Burns, Appellees.
No. 12-56445.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 11, 2014.
Filed Dec. 15, 2014.
Howard Kollitz, Zev Shechtman, Dan-ning Gill Diamond & Kollitz, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Appellant.
Isaac Zfaty, Irvine, CA, pro se.
Morgan Raymond Evans, Esquire, Bar-tel & Evans, LLP, Newport Beach, CA, for Appellee Zfaty Burns.
Before: SILVERMAN, BEA, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The bankruptcy court denied the City of El Monte's motion for an order to show cause why Isaac Zfaty and his firm should not be held in contempt and sanctioned. The district court affirmed that decision. We affirm.
The parties do not dispute that El Monte filed the subject motion seeking sanctions for conduct that allegedly occurred in the course of a Title 11 bankruptcy case. The bankruptcy court had authority to rule on the motion because it had authority to sanction attorneys who appear before it. See Price v. Lehtinen (In re Lehtinen), 564 F.3d 1052, 1058-59 (9th Cir.2009). It committed no abuse of discretion by denying the motion without a hearing. See Bankr. C.D. Cal. R. 9020-1(d)(2) ("No hearing on the motion for issuance of the order to show cause will be held unless the court so orders."); 9020-1(d)(3) ("If the motion for order to show cause is granted without a hearing, the court will issue and forward to the moving party the order to show cause setting the date and time of the hearing on why the party should not be held in contempt."). Further, the record supports' the bankruptcy court's determination that El Monte provided "no evidence whatsoever that Zfaty forged anyone's signature to any document filed . or that Zfaty knowingly made any false representations." Any error in its failure to rule on El Monte's evidentiary objections to Zfaty's declaration was harmless.
In his answering brief, Zfaty asks that we sanction El Monte for filing a frivolous appeal under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 88. But the rule requires the requesting party to provide notice through "a separately filed motion." Fed. R.App. P. 38 & advisory committee's notes; see also Gabor v. Frazer, 78 F.3d 459, 459-60 (9th Cir.1996). Zfaty has filed no such motion. We therefore deny the request without prejudice.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.