Practice/Organization Description
I am a litigation partner at Sidley Austin, LLP in Los Angeles. I specialize in appellate and complex commercial litigation.
I have participated in the briefing and/or argument of several dozen appeals and writ proceedings in a variety of subject areas. Some of the appellate matters in which I am or have been involved are:
• Synthes (U.S.A.) v. GMReis, No. 2008-1279 (Fed. Cir., pending)
• Sitrick v. Dreamworks, LLC, 516 F.3d 993 (Fed. Cir. 2008)
• Wooley v. Lucksinger, 961 So. 2d 1225 (La. App. 1st Cir. 2007)
• State of California ex rel. Grayson v. Pacific Bell Tel. Co., 142 Cal. App. 4th 741 (2006)
• USA Video Tech. Corp. v. Movielink, LLC, 185 Fed.Appx. 949, 2006 WL 1675337 (Fed. Cir. 2006)
• Israel Bio-Engineering Project v. Amgen, Inc., 401 F.3d 1299 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
• State of California ex rel. RoNo v. Altus Fin., S.A., 36 Cal. App. 4th 1284 (2005)
• State of California ex rel. RoNo v. Altus Fin., S.A., 344 F.3d 920 (9th Cir. 2003)
• Sierra Nat'l Ins. Holdings, Inc. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A., 64 Fed.Appx. 6, 2003 WL 1793293 (9th Cir. 2003)
• Low v. National Org. of Life and Health Ins. Guar. Ass?ns, 44 Fed.Appx. 282, 2002 WL 1902643 (9th Cir. 2002)
• Carranza-Hernandez v. Artemis S.A., 34 Fed.Appx. 593, 2002 WL 987919 (9th Cir. 2002)
• In re Joe Adams Indus., Ltd., 269 B.R. 808 (N.D. Iowa 2001)
• Hickinbotham Bros., Ltd. v. Hix Holdings, Inc., No. C032738 (2000)
• Sutter's Place, Inc. v. Kennedy, 71 Cal. App. 4th 674 (1999)
• Vivian v. Poole, 161 F.3d 16, 1998 WL 560756 (9th Cir. 1998)
• Newcombe v. Coors Brewing Co., 157 F.3d 686 (9th Cir. 1998)
• TCW Special Credits, Inc. v. Chloe Z Fishing Co., 129 F.3d 1330 (9th Cir. 1997), cert. denied 118 S. Ct. 2365 (1998)
• Polone v. United Talent Agency, No. B12152 (1998)
• McCoy v. American Suzuki Motor Corp., 936 P.2d 31 (1997), affirmed 961 P.2d 952 (1998)
• Quackenbush v. Mission Ins. Co., 62 Cal. App. 4th 797 (1998)
• Lane v. State of Israel, 105 F.3d 665 (9th Cir. 1996), cert. denied 117 S. Ct. 1407 (1997)
• Schwartz v. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, No. B097375 (1997), rev. denied 1997 Cal. LEXIS 8547 (1997)
• Western New York Pub. Broad. Ass'n v. Vestron, 661 N.Y.S.2d 555 (App. Div. 1997)
• De Laurentiis Enter. Group, Inc. v. Technicolor, 87 F.3d 1061 (9th Cir. 1996), cert. denied 117 S. Ct. 510 (1996)
• Quackenbush v. Mission Ins. Co., 46 Cal. App. 4th 458 (1996)
• Pomona College v. Superior Court, 45 Cal. App. 4th 1776 (1996)
Some of the trial-level matters in which I am or most recently have been involved are:
• In re Tamarack Resort Foreclosure and Related Proceedings, Case No. CV 08-114C, pending in the Fourth Judicial District, State of Idaho
• Credit Suisse v. Boespflug, Case No. 08-CV-00139-EJL, pending in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho
• BCS Servs. v. Heartwood 88, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58600 (N.D. Ill., August 10, 2007)
• Garamendi v. Altus Fin., S.A., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39273 (C.D. Cal. November 21, 2005)
• California ex rel. RoNo, LLC v. Altus Fin., S.A., 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9984 (C.D. Cal., May 16, 2002)
• Sierra Nat'l Ins. Holdings, Inc. v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A., 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 22301 (C.D. Cal., June 20, 2001)
• Low v. Altus Fin., S.A., 136 F. Supp. 2d 1113 (C.D. Cal. 2001)
I am a contributing author of: (1) Federal Appellate Practice: Ninth Circuit (2d ed. Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, 1999 & 2000 Supp.); and (2) "Survey of California Privacy and Related Claims Against the Media," in Libel Defense Resource Center, 1994-95 50-State Survey, Media Privacy and Related Law (1995)
