Case Name: Jeff POKORNY; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Dennis Obado, Objector-Appellant, v. QUIXTAR, INC.; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-07-07
Citations: 654 F. App'x 892
Docket Number: No. 13-17141
Parties: Jeff POKORNY; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Dennis Obado, Objector-Appellant, v. QUIXTAR, INC.; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: SILVERMAN and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges and GARBIS, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 654
Pages: 892–894

Head Matter:
Jeff POKORNY; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Dennis Obado, Objector-Appellant, v. QUIXTAR, INC.; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 13-17141
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 5, 2016 San Francisco, California
FILED July 7, 2016
David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Armonk, NY, Sigrid S. McCawley, Stuart Harold Singer, Carlos M. Sires, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Fort Laud-erdale, FL, David William Shapiro, Boersch Shapiro LLP, Oakland, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Dennis Obado, New Brunswick, NJ, Pro Se.
Charles Matthew Andersen, Winston & Cashatt, Spokane, WA, James William Blue, Jr., Northern Blue LLP, Chapel Hill, NC, Ralph Joseph Gabric, James Robert Sobieraj, Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, James M. Schurz, William L. Stern, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendant-Appellee Quixtar, Inc.
Charles Matthew Andersen, Winston & Cashatt, Spokane, WA, James William Blue, Jr., Northern Blue LLP, Kevin Hamilton Breck, Breek Law, LLC, Jacksonville, OR, Donald W. Carlson, Carlson, Calladme & Peterson LLP, San Francisco, CA for Defendants-Appellees James Ron Puryear, Jr., Georgia Lee Puryear, World Wide Group LLC.
Charles Matthew Andersen, Winston & Cashatt, Spokane, WA, James William Blue, Jr., Northern Blue LLP, Benjamin K. Riley, Bartko Zankel Bunzel & Miller, San Francisco, CA, Defendants-Appellees Britt Worldwide LLC, American Multimedia, Inc., Britt Management, Inc., Bill Britt, Peggy Britt.
Before: SILVERMAN and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges and GARBIS, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Marvin J. Garbis, District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Dennis Obado appeals from a district court order denying his motion to be reinstated as a class member after he had previously opted out. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
1. While there may be circumstances where equity requires a district court to allow a person to rejoin a class after opting out, this is not such a case. Obado's motion to rejoin the class was filed more than nine months after the opt-out deadline and more than two months after the second claims deadline. His excuse for that late filing—that he never received the January 13 claims notice—was contradicted by the claims administrator's representations that the notice was mailed to Obado's address and not returned as undelivérable. Under these circumstances, the district court was well within its discretion in denying Oba-do's motion.
2. Obado's ineffective assistance of counsel claim is not cognizable. Such a claim does not exist in the civil context. Even if it did exist, it would lack merithere. Class counsel did not represent Oba-do during the relevant proceedings.
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.