Opinion ID: 3064830
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: jurisdiction

Text: Initially, we address our jurisdiction to consider the Cadkins’ appeal of the order awarding the Trust attorney’s fees. The Trust maintains we lack jurisdiction because the Cadkins’ notice of appeal listed only the February 11, 2008 judgment (and did not explicitly list the December 27, 2007 judgment) on the line specifying the order being appealed. We reject this argument. [1] “When a party seeks to argue the merits of an order that does not appear on the face of the notice of appeal, we consider: (1) whether the intent to appeal a specific judgment can be fairly inferred and (2) whether the appellee was prejudiced by the mistake.” Le v. Astrue, 558 F.3d 1019, 1022-23 (9th Cir. 2009) (internal quotation marks omitted). “In determining whether intent and prejudice are present, we consider first, 2 Although the district court docket sheet reflects a filed date of December 21, 2007 for the judgment awarding the Trust attorney’s fees, the docket reflects an entered date of December 27. Because December 27 is the date judgment was entered, see Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1) & (7); United States v. Depew, 210 F.3d 1061, 1065 (9th Cir. 2000), the notice of appeal was timely with respect to that judgment, see Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(4)(A) (stating time to file notice of appeal does not run until district court resolves timely motion to reconsider). 8090 CADKIN v. LOOSE whether the affected party had notice of the issue on appeal; and, second, whether the affected party had an opportunity to fully brief the issue.” Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). [2] The notice of appeal refers to “judgments re: costs/attorneys’ fees” (emphasis added), indicating the Cadkins wished to appeal both the February 11 judgment in favor of May-Loo and the December 27 judgment in favor of the Trust. Moreover, the notice of appeal notification form filed concurrently with the notice of appeal identifies two “12/27/07” items on the line specifying the orders or judgments being appealed, and the Trust had the opportunity to fully brief the propriety of the attorney’s fees award on appeal. The Trust plainly had notice the Cadkins were appealing the judgment in the Trust’s favor and had ample opportunity to address the merits of that issue.