Legal Opinion
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of British Columbia v. Gilbertson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1979No. 77-2185PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:
PROCEEDINGS BELOW:
The plaintiff, the Canadian Province of British Columbia, filed this diversity action against the defendants (John Raymond Gilbertson, Leonard Rosenthal, Jack Sylvester, Frank Jay Cobbs, and Claude Marian Johns) in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. British Columbia sought recovery on a judgment for taxes which had been awarded against the defendants by a British Columbia court. The defendants made a F.R.Civ.P. 12(b) motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint. After a hearing before a United States magistrate, the…
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