Legal Opinion
Centurion Properties III, LLC v. Chicago Title Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 16, 2015No. 13-35692, 13-35725PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Chief Judge.
This case arises from a dispute between plaintiffs-appellants Centurion Properties III, LLC (“CPIII”) and SMI Group XIV, LLC (“SMI”) (together, “Plaintiffs”), and defendant-appellee Chicago Title Insurance Company (“Chicago Title”) over whether Chicago Title breached a duty of care to Plaintiffs, causing damages, when it recorded unauthorized liens on CPIII’s property. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. The appeal turns on whether a title company owes a duty of care to third parties in these circumstances, which is a potentially dispositive, but…
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