Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2014-12-18 23:00:51.175168+00
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FILED
                            NOT FOR PUBLICATION                            DEC 18 2014

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JON CHARLES BEYER; SHELLEY                       No. 11-35728
BEYER,
                                                 D.C. No. 3:10-cv-00523-MO
               Plaintiffs - Appellants,

  v.                                             MEMORANDUM*

BANK OF AMERICA, NA, DBA BAC
Home Loans Servicing, LP; et al.,

               Defendants - Appellees.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                            for the District of Oregon
                   Michael W. Mosman, District Judge, Presiding

                            Submitted December 9, 2014**

Before:        WALLACE, LEAVY, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

       Jon Charles Beyer and Shelley Beyer appeal pro se from the district court’s

judgment dismissing their action arising from foreclosure proceedings. We have

jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal under Fed. R.

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
Civ. P 12(b)(6), Stone v. Travelers Corp., 58 F.3d 434, 436-37 (9th Cir. 1995), and

we vacate and remand.

       The district court dismissed the Beyers’ action after finding, among other

things, that Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) was a

proper beneficiary of the Beyers’ deed of trust under Oregon law.

       However, after the district court entered judgment, the Supreme Court of

Oregon decided, in reviewing a deed of trust similar to the Beyers’, that MERS

cannot be a “beneficiary” of a deed of trust under the Oregon Trust Deed Act, nor

is MERS eligible to serve as the beneficiary simply by being designated as such in

the deed of trust. See Brandrup v. ReconTrust Co., 303 P.3d 301, 304, 309-12 (Or.

2013). Because the district court did not have the benefit of Brandrup when it

issued its order of dismissal, we vacate and remand to allow the court to reconsider

the Beyers’ wrongful foreclosure action. See Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S.
273, 292 (1982) (where findings are infirm because of an erroneous view of the

law, a remand is the proper course unless the record permits only one resolution of

the factual issue).

       The parties shall bear their own costs on appeal.

       VACATED and REMANDED.

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