• Salameh v. Tarsadia Hotel

    Publication Date: 2013-08-13
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    Date Filed: 2013-08-13
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding Before: Ronald M. Gould and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Sharon L. Gleason, District Judge.*
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Aguirre (argued), Christopher S. Morris, and Maria C. Severson, Aguirre, Morris & Severson LLP, San Diego, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants. Frederick H. Kranz (argued) and Lynn T. Galuppo, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, Irvine, California; Jonathan S. Kitchen and Ali P. Hamidi, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Tarsadia Hotels, Tushar Patel, B.U. Patel, Gregory Casserly, 5th Rock, LLC, MKP One, LLC, and Gaslamp Holdings, LLC.
    for defendant: Daniel M. Benjamin (argued) and Thomas W. McNamara, Ballard Spahr LLP, San Diego, California, for Defendant-Appellee Playground Destination Properties, Inc. Mark D. Cahn, Jacob H. Stillman, Randall W. Quinn, William K. Shirey, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Securities and Exchange Commission. Benjamin G. Shatz, Timi A. Hallem, and Jason T. Taketa, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Amici Curiae The Real Estate Roundtable and The National Association of Realtors.

    Case Number: No. 11-55479

    Cite as 13 C.D.O.S. 8843 TAMER SALAMEH; REAL ESTATE 4 HOSPITALITY, LLC, a California limited liability company; ALEKSEY KATS; DIANA KATS; MITCHELL J.