FIRST INTERCONTINENTAL BANK v. AHN

No. 13-56097.

798 F.3d 1149 (2015)

FIRST INTERCONTINENTAL BANK, a Georgia State Chartered Federally Insured Bank, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Christina AHN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Young Lim (argued), Park & Lim, Los Angeles, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Natalie Ikhlassi (argued) and Helen B. Kim , Thompson Coburn LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges, and JOAN H. LEFKOW, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

In this appeal, we apply California choice-of-law rules to determine whether California law or Georgia law governs an attorney's fees dispute between Plaintiff-Appellant First Intercontinental Bank (Bank) and Defendant-Appellee Christina Ahn (Christina). We conclude that California law, specifically California...

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