Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-04-21 00:01:57+00
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FILED
                           NOT FOR PUBLICATION                              APR 20 2010

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

                            FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ULRICH RISCHER, an individual,                   No. 08-56712

             Plaintiff - Appellee,               D.C. No. CV 96-03886-SJO-RNB

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
BANLAVOURA I, INC., a California
corporation; BANLAVOURA I, INC.
TRUST, a California trust; ENGLEWOOD
I, INC., a California corporation;
ENGLEWOOD I, INC. TRUST, a
California trust; LARRY ESACOVE, an
individual; and AIDA ESACOVE, an
individual,

             Defendants - Appellants.

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the Central District of California
                     S. James Otero, District Judge, Presiding

                           Submitted February 4, 2010 **
                              Pasadena, California

Before: B. FLETCHER, PREGERSON, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

        *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
        **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      Defendants Banlavoura I, Inc. Trust; Englewood I, Inc. Trust; Banlavoura I,

Inc.; Englewood I, Inc.; Larry Esacove; and Aida Esacove appeal the denial of

their motion for reconsideration of the district court’s order denying their motion to

set aside an assignment of judgment and to vacate a renewal of the judgment. We

review for abuse of discretion. MacDonald v. Grace Church Seattle, 457 F.3d
1079, 1081 (9th Cir. 2006).

      The district court did not abuse its discretion when it denied Defendants’

motion for reconsideration. There were no new material facts or changes of law

since the time of the district court’s original order. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)

(providing that motions for reconsideration are allowed due to "newly discovered

evidence that, with reasonable diligence, could not have been discovered in time to

move for a new trial"; fraud; or "any other reason that justifies relief"); C.D. Cal.

R. 7-18 (providing that a motion for reconsideration may be made only on the

grounds of, among other things, the emergence of new material facts or a change of

law). Defendants assert that the handwriting analysis produced after the district

court’s original order is a new fact, but they are mistaken. Evidence is not new

when the facts on which it is based had been in the moving party’s possession

since the start of the litigation. Coastal Transfer Co. v. Toyota Motor Sales, 833
F.2d 208, 210 (9th Cir. 1987).

      AFFIRMED.

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