Hawthorne Savings F.s.b.; Hawthorne Financial Corporation, Plaintiffs-appellees, v. Reliance Insurance Company of Illinois, Defendant-appellant.hawthorne Savings F.s.b.; Hawthorne Financial Corporation, Plaintiffs-appellees, v. M. Diane Koken, Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in Her Capacity As Liquidator of Reliance Insurance Company, Intervenor-appellant,reliance Insurance Company of Illinois, Defendant, 433 F.3d 1089 (9th Cir. 2006)

W. Wendell Hall and Rosemarie Kanusky, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., San Antonio, TX, Claudia Morehead and Robert S. Schulman, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, and Oscar Rey Rodriguez, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for the defendant-appellant.

Pamela H. Woldow, Chief Counsel, Insurance Department, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, for the intervenor-appellant.

Jeffrey A. Tidus and David P. Crochetiere, Baute & Tidus LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Dickran M. Tevrizian, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. Nos. CV-99-13119-DT(AJW), CV-99-13119-DT.

Before BROWNING, PREGERSON, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.