Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2019-03-01 21:00:29.35434+00
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NOT FOR PUBLICATION                           FILED
                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                        MAR 1 2019
                                                                     MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                       U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TYRELL GLASS; et al.,                           No.   18-55291

                Plaintiffs-Appellees,           D.C. No.
                                                3:17-cv-00563-JAH-KSC
 v.

FMM ENTERPRISES, INC.; et al.,                  ORDER*

                Defendants-Appellants.

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Southern District of California
                    John A. Houston, District Judge, Presiding

                     Argued and Submitted November 9, 2018
                              Pasadena, California

Before: RAWLINSON, MELLOY,** and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.

      Defendants FMM Enterprises, Inc., GTPD Enterprises, Inc., Cynthia Walsh,

Ryan McAweeney, and Neil Billock appeal two district court orders that temporarily

forbid the parties in this putative class action from communicating with putative

      *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
      **
            The Honorable Michael J. Melloy, United States Circuit Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.
class members until a curative notice can be approved by the court and distributed.

We dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction.1

      1.     The district court’s orders, which were issued under Federal Rule of

Civil Procedure 23(d), are not injunctions for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a)(1).

Moreover, they can be effectively challenged by direct appeal after a final judgment.

See Pit River Tribe v. U.S. Forest Serv., 615 F.3d 1069, 1077 (9th Cir. 2010) (“To

be appealable under section 1292(a)(1), as having the ‘practical effect’ of an

injunction, the district court’s order ‘must (1) have the practical effect of entering an

injunction, (2) have serious, perhaps irreparable, consequences, and (3) be such that

an immediate appeal is the only effective way to challenge it.’” (citations omitted));

cf. Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard, 452 U.S. 89, 94–95, 97, 103 (1981) (reversing a Rule

23(d) order “[o]n appeal from a subsequent final order”); Wang v. Chinese Daily

News, Inc., 623 F.3d 743, 749–50, 755–58 (9th Cir. 2010) (reviewing a Rule 23(d)

order after final judgment had been entered), vacated on other grounds, 565 U.S.
801 (2011) (mem.); Domingo v. New England Fish Co., 727 F.2d 1429, 1439–41

(9th Cir. 1984) (per curiam) (reversing a communication-limiting, pre-trial order

after judgment), modified, 742 F.2d 520 (9th Cir. 1984).

1
 The Plaintiffs also move this Court for leave to file a sur-reply brief on the merits
of the case. Because we dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, we deny the Plaintiffs’
motion as moot.

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      2.    Because they can be effectively reviewed on appeal from a final

judgment, the district court’s orders are also not final collateral orders.     See

Breazeale v. Victim Servs., Inc., 878 F.3d 759, 766 (9th Cir. 2017) (“To establish

jurisdiction under the collateral order doctrine, the appellants must show the order

they seek to appeal [1] determines the disputed question conclusively, [2] resolves

an important issue completely separate from the merits of the action, and [3] is

effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment.”).

      3.    Finally, mandamus relief is not appropriate here. None of the factors

we are required to consider when deciding whether to grant this extraordinary

remedy favor granting the mandamus. See Barnes v. Sea Hawaii Rafting, LLC, 889
F.3d 517, 535 (9th Cir. 2018).

      DISMISSED.

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Glass v. FMM Enterprises, Inc., No 18-55291      FILED
RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge, concurring:             MAR 1 2019
                                              MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                               U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
     I concur in the result.