45 Fed.Appx. 746 (9th Cir. 2002) Gary KREMEN, Plaintiff--Appellee, and Online Classifieds, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Stephen Michael COHEN, an individual; Ocean Fund International, Ltd., a foreign company; Sand Man Internacional Ltd., a foreign company; Ynata Ltd., Defendants--Appellants, and Sporting Houses Management Corporation, a Nevada company; Sporting Houses of America, a Nevada company; Sporting Houses General Inc., a Nevada company; Network Solutions, a Delaware company; William Douglas, Sir, an individual; VP Bank (BVI) Limited, a foreign company; Andrew Keuls, an individual; Montano Properties LLC, a California Limited Liability Company, Defendants. Gary Kremen, an individual, Plaintiff--Appellant, and Online Classifieds, Inc., a Delaware Company, Plaintiff, v. Stephen Michael Cohen, an individual; Ocean Fund International, Ltd., a foreign company; Sand Man Internacional Ltd., a foreign company; Sporting Houses Management Corporation, a Nevada company; Sporting Houses of America, a Nevada company; Sporting Houses General Inc., a Nevada company; William Douglas, Sir, an individual; VP Bank (BVI) Limited, a foreign company; Andrew Keuls, an individual; Montano Properties LLC, a California Limited Liability Company; Ynata Ltd., Defendants, and Network Solutions, a Delaware company, Defendant--Appellee. Gary Kremen, an individual, Plaintiff--Appellee, and Online Classifieds, Inc., a Delaware Company, Plaintiff, v. Stephen Michael Cohen, an individual; Ocean Fund International, Ltd., a foreign company; Sand Man Internacional Ltd., a foreign company; Sporting Houses Management Corporation, a Nevada company; Sporting Houses of America, a Nevada company; Sporting Houses General Inc., a Nevada company; William Douglas, Sir, an individual; VP Bank (BVI) Limited, a foreign company; Andrew Keuls, an individual; Ynata Ltd., Defendants, and Montano Properties LLC, a California Limited Liability Company, Defendant--Appellant. No. 01-15886, 01-15899, 01-17034. D.C. No. CV-98-20718-JW. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. August 30, 2002 Argued and Submitted August 13, 2002.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION. (See Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure Rule 36-3)
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California James Ware, District Judge, Presiding.
James M. Wagstaffe, Pamela Urueta, Alex K. Grab, Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco.
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Before KOZINSKI and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges, and FITZGERALD, District Judge.
The Honorable James M. Fitzgerald, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.
MEMORANDUM
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
In light of Cohen's status as a fugitive from justice and his egregious abuse of the litigation process, we exercise our discretion to dismiss his appeal pursuant to the fugitive disentitlement doctrine. See Parretti v. United States, 143 F.3d 508, 510-11 (9th Cir.1998) (en banc). The appeal in No. 01-15886 is therefore DISMISSED as to all appellants.
We reach the merits of Montano's appeal in No. 01-17034. The district court did not abuse its discretion in advancing Montano's trial date. See Muckleshoot Tribe v. Lummi Indian Tribe, 141 F.3d 1355, 1358 (9th Cir.1998). The due process claim is meritless for similar reasons. AFFIRMED.
The appeal in No. 01-15899 remains under submission.