Case Name: Abram RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION LOCAL 29 and International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Defendants-Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-06-27
Citations: 440 F. App'x 550
Docket Number: No. 09-56915
Parties: Abram RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION LOCAL 29 and International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Defendants-Appellants.
Judges: Before: B. FLETCHER and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and GWIN, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 440
Pages: 550–551

Head Matter:
Abram RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHORE AND WAREHOUSE UNION LOCAL 29 and International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 09-56915.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted June 6, 2011.
Filed June 27, 2011.
Derek Thomas Anderson, Law Offices of Derek T. Anderson, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Adam Ezra Chaikin, Hayes & Cunningham, LLP, Dennis J. Hayes, Esquire, Law Offices of Dennis J. Hayes, San Diego, CA, Robert S. Remar, Esquire, Phil A. Thomas, Esquire, Leonard Carder LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellants.
Before: B. FLETCHER and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and GWIN, District Judge.
The Honorable James S. Gwin, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio, Cleveland, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
International Longshore and Warehouse Union and its Local Chapter 29 (collectively "Appellants") appeal the district court's denial of sanctions against Abram Rodriguez and his counsel Derek Anderson. Appellants moved for sanctions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1927 and the court's inherent power, after the district court granted them summary judgment on Rodriguez's underlying claim that Appellants violated Rodriguez's rights under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). Appellants claimed Anderson improperly filed a separate lawsuit against Appellants' counsel, threatened Appellants' with criminal liability, and used a lawsuit by Rodriguez's brother to leverage settlement. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and we AFFIRM.
The district court's three page order, denying the motion for sanctions under both theories, acknowledged the Appellants arguments and cited controlling case law. The district court did not abuse its discretion when it did not find subjective bad faith on the part of the plaintiffs, did not make illogical, implausible, or unsupported findings, and denied Appellants' motion for sanctions. Air Separation, Inc. v. Underwriters at Lloyd's of London, 45 F.3d 288, 291 (9th Cir.1995).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.