S.E.C. v. CAPITAL CONSULTANTS LLC

Nos. 04-35339, 04-35967.

453 F.3d 1166 (2006)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, and Karen Lynn Benson; P.J. Brix, LLC, Claimants-Appellants, v. CAPITAL CONSULTANTS LLC; Jeffrey L. Grayson; Barclay L. Grayson, Defendants, Thomas F. Lennon, Receiver-Appellee. Securities and Exchange Commission; Carolyn L. Arntson; Arntson Family Holdings, LLC; Mary Arntson; Jerry L. Baker; Mary Beth Baker; Karen Lynn Benson; Roderick A. Livesay; Brix Dearmond Llc; John R. Chaney; J. David Coughlin and Jennifer Lee Coughlin Trust; J. David Coughlin; Marlene Dutcher; Robert Dutcher; Davol Family Trusts A and B; Ann Hazen Francis; Fremont Land Company LLC; Funeral Associates LLC; Jay A. Hinz; Holtz Joint Trust; Kenneth E. Holtz; Rosella G. Holtz; Paula J. King; Shelley King; Laborers International Union of North America, Local 296; Elizabeth McNally; James Murphy; Patricia J. Murphy; Wayne Musgrove; Estate of Bennie Kay Musgrove; Betty Norrie; Intertribal Timber Council; P.J. Brix, LLC; Kenneth R. Poorman; Poorman Family LLC; Quality Electric Money Purchase Plan; Scott Thomason; Donald E. Tykeson Trust; Donald E. Tykeson; Donald E. Tykeson Foundation; Boyd Van Ness; Wand's Funeral Home Defined Benefit Pension Plan; Robert J. Wilhelm Trust; Allen and Esther Wilson Revocable Trust; Leslie R. Wolf; Martin Wolf; Deborah Wolf; Nancy M. Gabriel; Joseph Gabriel; Robert B. Gutterman Trust; S.M. Gutterman, MA, JD, Profit-Sharing Plan; G.S. Gutterman, MD; S.M. Gutterman; G.S. Gutterman; Ibew Local Union 1245; Noel B. Flynn; Jeld-Wen Foundation; Quality Electric, Inc.; Aftcs-Preferred Endowment Care-California; American Funeral & Cemetery Trust Services Preferred Endowment Care — Oregon/Washington, Plaintiffs, Eighth District Electrical Pension Fund; Eighth District Electrical Benefit Fund, Claimants, and American Funeral and Cemetery Trust Services; Virginia K. Mudd; Virginia B. Mudd Revocable Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Capital Consultants LLC; Jeffrey L. Grayson; Barclay L. Grayson; Capital Consultants LLC; Andrew Wiederhorn; Lawrence A. Mendelsohn; Jeffrey L. Grayson; Barclay L. Grayson; Capital Consultants, Inc.; Wilshire Credit Corporation; Wilshire Financial Services Group, Inc.; Wilshire Servicing Corporation; Portland Servicing Corporation; Capital Wilshire Holdings, Inc.; Sterling Capital LLC; Daniel Dyer; Ted Wiederhorn; Specialty Finance Investors LLC; Tiffany Wiederhorn; Joyce Mendelsohn; Wilshire Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.; First Bank of Beverly Hills FSB; Wilshire Acquisition Corporation; Wilshire Funding Corporation; Cf Credit LLC; Bud Coleman; David Frey; Foley McIntosh Frey & Claytor PC; Oxbow Capital Partners, LLC; Oxbow Capital 1999 Fund I, LLC; Oxbow Capital 1999 Fund B, LLC; Bear Stearns & Co.; Moss Adams LLP; Consillium, Inc.; Suzanne Perkins; Larry Tapanen; Stephen Olson; Shawn Olson; O'Melveny & Myers LLP; Robert N. Eccles; Mark Peterman; Ellis & Howard PC; Weiss Jensen; McCarter & English; Brooks Financial LLC, Defendants, Thomas F. Lennon, Receiver-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 12, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Stephens, Esler, Stephens & Buckley, Portland, OR, for the appellants.

Loraine L. Pedowitz, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, San Diego, CA, for the appellee.

Before MELVIN BRUNETTI, THOMAS G. NELSON, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

I. Introduction

Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we have jurisdiction over appeals from "all final decisions of the district courts of the United States."1 This appeal presents the question of whether a district court's order determining the rights and liabilities of some, but not all, claimants with claims to receivership assets is a final decision under § 1291.2 We conclude that...

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