KAFFAGA v. ESTATE OF STEINBECK

No. 18-55336.

938 F.3d 1006 (2019)

Waverly Scott KAFFAGA, as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The ESTATE OF Thomas STEINBECK, Gail Knight Steinbeck, and The Palladin Group, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 9, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Dowd (argued), Dowd Scheffel PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Matthew I. Berger , Matthew I. Berger Law Group, Santa Barbara, California; for Defendants-Appellants.

Susan J. Kohlmann (argued), Alison I. Stein , and Brittany R. Lamb , Jenner & Block LLP, New York, New York; Andrew J. Thomas , Jenner & Block LLP, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: Richard C. Tallman, Sandra S. Ikuta, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

PROLOGUE

"This `suit has, in course of time, become so complicated, that . . . no two . . . lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause: innumerable young people have married into...

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