Court Opinion

ID: 179221
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2010-11-15 16:01:45+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:44:03.546397
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
                ______________________

             LAWRENCE B. LOCKWOOD
                 and PANIP, LLC,
                Plaintiffs-Appellants,

                           v.

  SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON,
     LLP, JONATHAN HANGARTNER, and
             STEVE P. HASSID,
             Defendants-Appellees.
             ____________________

                      2010-1189
                ______________________

   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Central District of California in Case No. 09-CV-5157,
Judge John F. Walter.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    KATHRYN L. BOYD, Howarth & Smith, of Los Angeles,
California, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. With her on
the brief was DON HOWARTH.

  GARY A. CLARK, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter &
Hampton, LLP, of Los Angeles, California, argued for
defendants-appellees. With him on the brief were DARREN
M. FRANKLIN and DENNIS J. SMITH.

   ANDRE M. MURA, Center for Constitutional Litigation,
P.C., of Washington, DC, for amicus curiae the TPL
Group.

   DAVID HRICIK, Mercer University School Law, of
Macon, Georgia, for amicus curiae Amici Law Professors.

   MARGARET M. GRIGNON, Reed Smith LLP, Of Los
Angeles, California, for amicus curiae NDP Managed
Security. With her on the brief was JUDITH E. POSNER.

   BRIAN M. BERLINER, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, of Los
Angeles, California, for amicus curiae O,Melveny & Myers
LLP. With him on the brief were JOSHUA BILLER; and
MARK S. DAVIES and MEAGHAN MCLAINE VERGOW, of
Washington, DC.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

   PER CURIAM (NEWMAN, PLAGER, and PROST, Circuit
Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

_November 15, 2010      /s/ Jan Horbaly
      Date                  Jan Horbaly
                                Clerk