Opinion ID: 503514
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Heading: Uniden's Motion to Strike

Text: 11 Uniden has moved to strike Schumaier's Opening Brief, portions of its Excerpts of Record, and its Designation of Record on Appeal on the ground that Schumaier has included within the excerpts certain materials not properly part of the record on appeal. 12 Fed.R.App.P. 10(a) provides as follows: Composition of the Record on Appeal. The original papers and exhibits filed in the district court, the transcript of proceedings, if any, and a certified copy of the docket entries prepared by the clerk of the district court shall constitute the record on appeal in all cases. This court's Rule 10-2 provides, in pertinent part: Pursuant to FRAP 10(a), the complete record on appeal consists of: ... (b) the district court clerk's record of original pleadings, exhibits and other papers filed with the district court ('clerk's record'). Ninth Cir.R. 10-2. 13 Papers not filed with the district court or admitted into evidence by that court are not part of the clerk's record and cannot be part of the record on appeal. See United States v. Walker, 601 F.2d 1051, 1054-55 (9th Cir.1979) (affidavits that were not part of the evidence presented to the district court would not be considered on appeal); Panaview Door & Window Co. v. Reynolds Metals Co., 255 F.2d 920, 922 (9th Cir.1958) (striking from record an exhibit that had been attached to appellant's trial court memorandum of points and authorities and a document that had been marked for identification, neither of which had been received in evidence); Watson v. Rhode Island Ins. Co., 196 F.2d 254, 255-56 (5th Cir.1952) (granting motion to strike documents that were tendered as exhibits to brief on appeal but that had not been offered in evidence below). 14 Schumaier does not dispute that it never filed or submitted to the court below the Declaration of David R. Buchanan, Excerpts of Record (ER) 236-39. The Declaration, therefore, is not part of the record on appeal and must be stricken. 15 Schumaier did not file the documents that appear at ER 263-88 and 293-341. None of these documents are listed on the district court's docket sheet. Schumaier notes, however, that each of these documents was an exhibit to Schumaier's Petition for Writ of Mandamus previously filed in this court, which Petition and exhibits were served on the district court judge. Accordingly, Schumaier argues, these documents were before the United States District Court before it entered the final judgment from which this appeal is taken and were properly included in the Excerpts of Record. 16 Papers submitted to the district court after the ruling that is challenged on appeal should be stricken from the record on appeal. See Walker, 601 F.2d at 1055 (We are here concerned only with the record before the trial judge when his decision was made.) (emphasis added); Heath v. Helmick, 173 F.2d 156, 156-57 (9th Cir.1949) (striking from record on appeal papers that were filed in district court after judgment from which appeal was taken) (The cause must be tried here upon the record made at the original trial.). 17 Schumaier's written objections to the proposed order were submitted to the district court prior to the entry of the protective order. The contested portions of the Excerpts of Record, however, were not served on the court until July 15, 1986, one month after the hearing on the motion and one week after entry of the protective order. 18 The only case cited by Schumaier to support its position, Love v. Royall, 179 F.2d 5 (8th Cir.1950), is distinguishable. In that case, the Eighth Circuit denied plaintiff's motion to strike defendant's supplemental record on appeal, which contained papers from a separate court proceeding instituted by plaintiff. Id. at 7. In Love, however, unlike in the present case, the contested papers had been before the District Court on the argument of the motion to dismiss the complaint.... Id. 19 In short, the contested portions of Schumaier's Excerpts of Record were neither filed with the district court, considered by the court, nor even before the court when it entered the order that Schumaier now challenges on appeal. We, therefore, strike the papers (ER 236-39, 263-88 and 293-341) from the record and give them no consideration in adjudicating this appeal. See Watson, 196 F.2d at 256 (court refuses to consider grounds for reversal evidenced in documents that have been stricken from record on appeal); Heath, 173 F.2d at 157 (court gives no consideration to stricken materials in disposing of appeal). Uniden's motion to strike is denied in all other respects. 20