R. Sorrels v. Northwest Trustee Services Inc

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: July 18, 2017
• Docket: 16-35007
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS JUL 18 2017 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

R. SORRELS, Trustee of the other RCJS No. 16-35007 Trust, D.C. No. 3:15-cv-05146-RJB Plaintiff-Appellant,

v. MEMORANDUM*

NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES INC; et al.,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Robert J. Bryan, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted July 11, 2017**

Before: CANBY, KOZINSKI, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

R. Sorrels appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his

diversity action alleging state law claims related to foreclosure proceedings. We

review de novo questions of our own jurisdiction. Hunt v. Imperial Merchant

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Servs., Inc., 560 F.3d 1137, 1140 (9th Cir. 2009).

Because the foreclosure sale of the property has already been completed, this

court cannot grant the relief Sorrels requests and we dismiss the appeal as moot.

See Vegas Diamond Props., LLC v. FDIC, 669 F.3d 933, 936 (9th Cir. 2012)

(“[T]he sale of the real properties prevents this Court from granting the requested

relief and accordingly renders this appeal moot.”); Am. Cas. Co. of Reading, Pa. v.

Baker, 22 F.3d 880, 896 (9th Cir. 1994) (a case is moot when there is no longer a

present controversy as to which effective relief can be granted).

DISMISSED.

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