688 F.3d 984
9th Cir.
2012

Kouichi TANIGUCHI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KAN PACIFIC SAIPAN, LTD., doing business as Mariana Resort and Spa, Defendant-Appellee.

No. 09-15212.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

July 20, 2012.

984

Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Douglas F. Cushnie, Law Offices of Douglas F. Cushnie, Saipan, MP, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard Wilcox Pierce, Richard W. Pierce Law Office LLC, Saipan, MP, Thomas Lynn Roberts, Esquire, Dooley Roberts & Fowler LLP, Tamuning, GU, for Defendant-Appellee.

ORDER

Pursuant to the Opinion of the Supreme Court in Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd., — U.S. —, 132 S.Ct. 1997, 182 L.Ed.2d 903 (2012), the district court‘s grant of Defendant‘s motion for costs pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1920(6) is REVERSED, and the matter is REMANDED for proceedings consistent with the Supreme Court‘s Opinion. The panel opinion, Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd., 633 F.3d 1218 (9th Cir.2011), is vacated.

The mandate shall issue forthwith. See Fed. R.App. P. 41(b).