Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2012-03-15 20:36:27+00
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                    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                         FILED
                           FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT                            MAR 15 2012

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                                                                         U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
LOCALS 302 & 612                       )      No. 10-36007
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF                 )
OPERATING ENGINEERS                    )      D.C. No. 2:10-cv-00896-JPD
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY                  )
HEALTH AND SECURITY FUND;              )      MEMORANDUM *
LOCALS 302 AND 612 OF                  )
THE INTERNATIONAL UNION                )
OF OPERATING ENGINEERS-                )
EMPLOYERS CONSTRUCTION                 )
INDUSTRY RETIREMENT FUND;              )
WESTERN WASHINGTON                     )
OPERATING ENGINEERS-                   )
EMPLOYERS TRAINING TRUST               )
FUND; LOCAL 302                        )
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF                 )
OPERATING ENGINEERS,                   )
                                       )
      Plaintiffs – Appellees,          )
                                       )
      v.                               )
                                       )
ACE PAVING CO., INC., a                )
Washington corporation,                )
                                       )
      Defendant – Appellant.           )
                                       )
                                       )

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Western District of Washington

      *
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
                 James P. Donohue, II, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

                             Submitted March 5, 2012 **
                                Seattle, Washington

Before:      FERNANDEZ and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and KOH,*** District Judge.

      Ace Paving Co., Inc. appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment

in favor of Locals 302 & 612 of the International Union of Operating Engineers

Construction Industry Health and Security Fund; Locals 302 and 612 of the

International Union of Operating Engineers-Employers Construction Industry

Retirement Fund; Western Washington Operating Engineers-Employers Training

Trust Fund; and Local 302 of the International Union of Operating Engineers. We

affirm.

      Ace asserts that the district court erred when it determined that Ace must pay

liquidated damages based upon the amount of contributions that remained unpaid

when the action commenced, even if those were paid before judgment was entered.

We disagree; the law of this circuit required that result. See Nw. Adm’rs, Inc. v.

Albertson’s, Inc., 104 F.3d 253, 257–58 (9th Cir. 1996); see also Idaho Plumbers

& Pipefitters Health & Welfare Fund v. United Mech. Contractors, Inc., 875 F.2d

      **
      The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral
argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
      ***
         The Honorable Lucy H. Koh, United States District Judge for the Northern
District of California, sitting by designation.

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212, 215 (9th Cir. 1989). We reject Ace’s assertion that we are not bound by those

cases. See Hart v. Massanari, 266 F.3d 1155, 1171 (9th Cir. 2001); see also

Cetacean Cmty. v. Bush, 386 F.3d 1169, 1173 (9th Cir. 2004).

      AFFIRMED.

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