Court Opinion

ID: 150853
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Date Created: 2010-07-16 20:10:33+00
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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION                              JUL 16 2010

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                       U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ENCOMPASS TELESERVICES, INC., an                 No. 09-35612
Oregon corporation,
                                                 D.C. No. 3:04-cv-00821-HU
              Plaintiff-counter-defendant,

  v.                                             MEMORANDUM *

RANDALL LEE SCHEETS, AKA Randy
Scheets,

              Defendant-counter-claimant -
Appellee,

SAVANT C.C.A., INC., an Arizona
corporation, AKA Savant Call Center
Associates, Inc.; et al.,

              Counter-defendants,

MICHAEL A. BOYLE, pro se,

              Counter-defendant -
Appellant.

ENCOMPASS TELESERVICES, INC., an                 No. 09-35719
Oregon corporation,
                                                 D.C. No. 3:04-cv-00821-HU

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
               Plaintiff-counter-defendant,

   v.

RANDALL LEE SCHEETS, AKA Randy
Scheets,

               Defendant-counter-claimant -
Appellee,

SAVANT C.C.A., INC., an Arizona
corporation, AKA Savant Call Center
Associates, Inc. and PATRICK BOYLE,

               Counter-defendants,

MICHAEL A. BOYLE, pro se,

               Counter-defendant -
Appellant,

JOHN CARGAL,

               Counter-defendant.

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                              for the District of Oregon
                   Dennis James Hubel, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

                         Argued and Submitted July 12, 2010
                                 Portland, Oregon

Before: PREGERSON, WARDLAW and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

        Michael A. Boyle (Boyle) appeals the trial court’s order denying his motion

for a new trial.
      “To establish that the district court abused its discretion in denying [his]

motion for a new trial based upon the newly discovered evidence, the appellant[]

must show that [he] discovered the evidence after trial, that [he] could not have

discovered the evidence sooner through the exercise of reasonable diligence, and

that the new evidence is of such magnitude that it would likely have changed the

outcome of the case.” Far Out Productions, Inc. v. Oskar, 247 F.3d 986, 998 (9th

Cir. 2001) (citation omitted).

      Boyle’s newly discovered evidence consisted of Encompass Teleservices,

Inc.’s financial records that, according to Boyle, revealed an erroneous accounting

of a $500,000 loan Boyle made to Encompass. However, as the secretary for

Encompass, Boyle maintained the financial records and had access to the

documents he now asserts are newly discovered. Because Boyle previously had

access to these documents, they cannot be fairly characterized as newly discovered,

and the trial court acted within its discretion when it denied Boyle’s motion.

“Evidence is not newly discovered if it was in the party’s possession at the time of

[the] judgment or could have been discovered with reasonable diligence.” Wallis

v. J.R. Simplot Co., 26 F.3d 885, 892 n.6 (9th Cir. 1994), as amended, (citation

omitted).

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      Boyle’s assertion that the trial judge erred in permitting Randall Scheets to

amend his pretrial order lacks merit. The trial judge never entered a final pretrial

order. Boyle cannot be prejudiced by an order that was never entered.

      AFFIRMED.

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