Rigoberto Espinoza v. Beta Operating Co.

NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS SEP 5 2019
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
RIGOBERTO ESPINOZA, as an aggrieved No. 15-56819
employee pursuant to the Private Attorneys
General Act ("PAGA"), D.C. No.
2:15-cv-04659-RGK-AS
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v. ORDER*
BETA OPERATING COMPANY, LLC,
DBA Beta Offshore, a Delaware limited
liability company,
Defendant-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
R. Gary Klausner, District Judge, Presiding
ANDRE JEFFERSON, an individual, No. 15-56856
Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No.
2:15-cv-04966-SJO-PLA
v.
BETA OPERATING COMPANY, LLC,
DBA Beta Offshore, a Delaware limited
liability company; MEMORIAL
PRODUCTION PARTNERS, LP, a
Delaware limited partnership,
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Defendants-Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Central District of California
S. James Otero, District Judge, Presiding
Submission Deferred June 5, 2017
Submitted September 3, 2019
Pasadena, California
Before: BEA and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and J. MOTZ, ** District Judge.
These appeals are submitted on the briefs. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). The
judgments are vacated and the cases remanded to the district court for further
consideration in light of Parker Drilling Mgmt. Servs., Ltd. v. Newton, 139 S. Ct.
1881 (2019). Each party is to bear its own costs.
VACATED AND REMANDED.
**
The Honorable J. Frederick Motz, United States District Judge for the
District of Maryland, sitting by designation.
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