ADAMS v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRST NATIONAL BANK

Nos. 72-1484, 72-1888.

492 F.2d 324 (1973)

George T. ADAMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Defendant-Appellant. Willie O. HAMPTON and Mattie Hampton, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BANK OF CALIFORNIA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a California banking corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing March 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Isaacs (argued), Richard B. Munks, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, San Diego, Cal., for defendant-appellant (Southern California First Nat. Bank).

Michael B. Weisz, Legal Aid Society of San Diego, San Diego, Cal., (argued), Richard A. Weisz, Legal Aid Foundation of Long Beach, Long Beach, Cal., (argued), for plaintiff-appellee (Adams).

William M. Burke (argued), Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles, Cal., Robert Ames, Sterling Hutcheson, Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, San Diego, Cal., Gendel, Roskoff, Shapiro & Quittner, Los Angeles, Cal., Styskal, Wiese & Melchione, N. Hollywood, Cal., Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Clinton & Clark, San Francisco, Cal., Pizer & Michaelson, Santa Ana, Cal., Walter Malcolm, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., Soia Mentschikoff, Chicago, Ill., for amici curiae.

Mark E. Budnitz, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, Mass., as amicus curiae in support of plaintiff-appellee (Adams).

Henry S. Hewitt (argued), Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, Oakland, Cal., Stefan M. Rosenzweig, Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, Model Cities Unit, Oakland, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant (Hampton).

Noble K. Gregory (argued), John A. Sutro, Jr., Bernard Zimmerman, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee (Bank of California).

Before: CHAMBERS and TRASK, Circuit Judges, and BYRNE, District Judge.


TRASK, Circuit Judge:

These two cases present appeals from contrary results reached by two district courts on the question of the constitutional due process rights of debtors whose property is repossessed by self-help, without formal legal proceedings.

The Adams case is before this court on an interlocutory appeal by the Southern California First National Bank (S. Cal. Bank) from an order of the District Court...

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