Chandler v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

                   FOR PUBLICATION
  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
       FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

STUART CHANDLER, individually                  No. 09-55123
and on behalf of a class of others                D.C. No.
similarly situated,                            2:08-cv-03184-
                 Plaintiff-Appellant,
                  v.                              GAF-E
                                              Central District of
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE                     California,
INSURANCE COMPANY,                              Los Angeles
             Defendant-Appellee.
                                                  ORDER

        Appeal from the United States District Court
           for the Central District of California
          Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding

                  Argued and Submitted
            March 5, 2010—Pasadena, California

                       Filed March 17, 2010

  Before: Pamela Ann Rymer and Kim McLane Wardlaw,
       Circuit Judges, and Stephen M. McNamee,*
                  Senior District Judge.




  *The Honorable Stephen M. McNamee, Senior United States District
Judge for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation.

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                         COUNSEL

Don Howarth, Howarth & Smith, Los Angeles, California, for
the plaintiff-appellant.

Kevin J. Dunne, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, San
Francisco, California, (argued); Kirk C. Jenkins, Sedgwick,
Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for the
defendant-appellee.


                           ORDER

   We affirm for the reasons stated by the district court in its
published opinion at 596 F.Supp.2d 1314 (C.D. Cal. 2008),
attached as Appendix A.

  AFFIRMED.
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