UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT JAMES HUNTSMAN, No. 21-56056

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:21-cv- v. 02504-SVW-SK CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF OPINION JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS,

Defendant-Appellee, and DOES, 1-10,

Defendant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 15, 2022 Pasadena, California

Filed August 7, 2023 2 HUNTSMAN V. CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges, and Edward R. Korman, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge W. Fletcher; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Korman

SUMMARY **

Diversity/Fraud/ Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine

The panel reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus C