CALIFORNIA EX REL. RONO, LLC v. ALTUS FINANCE S.A.

No. 02-56038.

344 F.3d 920 (2003)

State of CALIFORNIA ex rel. RONO, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALTUS FINANCE S.A.; CDR Creances; Credit Lyonnais USA; Jean-Francois Henin, Defendants, and CDR Enterprises; Consortium de Realisation S.A.; Mutuelle Assurance Artisanale de France; Mutuelle Assurance Artisanale de France Vie S.A.; Omnium Geneve S.A.; Credit Lyonnais S.A.; Aurora National Life Assurance Company; New California Life Holdings, Inc.; Artemis S.A.; Artemis Finances S.N.C.; Aurora S.A.; Artemis America Partnership; Francois Pinault; Apollo Advisors L.P.; Leon D. Black; Craig M. Cogut; Credit Lyonnais Securities, Inc.; John J. Hannan; Lion Advisors L.P.; Pegasus Insurance Partners, L.L.P.; Eric B. Siegel, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 15, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Shartsis, Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, San Francisco, CA, Jan Zabriskie, DAG, Attorney General's Office, Sacramento, CA, Brian D. Daly, Beck, Decorso, Daly, Barrera & Kreindler, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

No appearance, for Defendant.

Travers D. Wood, C. Randolph Fishburn, White & Case, Los Angeles, CA, Thomas McGanney, White & Case, New York, NY, Richard J. Ney, Chadbourne & Parke, Los Angeles, CA, Whitney I. Gerard, New York, NY, Stanley G. Roman, Krieg, Keller, Sloan, Reilley & Roman, San Francisco, CA, Lionel Aeschlimann, Switzerland, Lawrence B. Friedman, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York, NY, Theodore N. Miller, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Los Angeles, CA, Richard D. Bernstein, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, Washington, DC, Robert L. Weigel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, New York, NY, Robert S. Warren, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, Marshall R. King, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP, New York, NY, James E. Lyons, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, San Francisco, CA, John J. Quinn, Arnold & Porter, Los Angeles, CA, Joseph Nocella, White & Case, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: A. Wallace TASHIMA, Marsha S. BERZON, and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

Pursuant to Rule 29.8 of the California Rules of Court, we grant the motion of the Attorney General and request the California Supreme Court to decide the two questions of California law set forth in Part II of this order. This case is withdrawn from submission until further order of this court and all further proceedings in this court are stayed pending final action by the California Supreme Court.

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