FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION MAR 15 2012

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NORTHWEST ADMINISTRATORS,) No. 10-35888 INC., ) ) D.C. No. 2:10-cv-00194-MAT Plaintiff – Appellee, ) ) MEMORANDUM * v. ) ) ACE PAVING CO., INC., a ) Washington corporation, ) ) Defendant – Appellant. ) ) ) NORTHWEST ADMINISTRATORS,) No. 10-35998 INC., ) ) D.C. No. 2:10-cv-00647-JPD Plaintiff – Appellee, ) ) v. ) ) ACE PAVING CO., INC., a ) Washington corporation, ) ) Defendant – Appellant. ) ) ) NORTHWEST ADMINISTRATORS,) No. 10-36008 INC., )

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. ) D.C. No. 2:10-cv-00813-JCC Plaintiff – Appellee, ) ) v. ) ) ACE PAVING CO., INC., a ) Washington corporation, ) ) Defendant – Appellant. ) ) )

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Mary A. Theiler, Magistrate Judge, Presiding ** James P. Donohue, II, Magistrate Judge, Presiding *** John C. Coughenour, District Judge, Presiding ****

Submitted March 5, 2012 ***** Seattle, Washington

Before: FERNANDEZ and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and KOH,****** District Judge.

Ace Paving Co., Inc. appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment

** (No. 10-35888). *** (No. 10-35998). **** (No. 10-36008). ***** The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). ****** The Honorable Lucy H. Koh, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, sitting by designation.

2 in favor of Northwest Administrators, Inc. in these three cases. We affirm.

Ace asserts that the district court erred when it determined that Ace must pay

liquidated damages based upon the amount of contributions that remained unpaid

when an action commenced, even if the contributions were paid before judgment

was entered. We disagree; the law of this circuit required that result. See Nw.

Adm’rs, Inc. v. Albertson’s, Inc., 104 F.3d 253, 257–58 (9th Cir. 1996); see also

Idaho Plumbers & Pipefitters Health & Welfare Fund v. United Mech. Contractors,

Inc., 875 F.2d 212, 215 (9th Cir. 1989). We reject Ace’s assertion that we are not

bound by those cases. See Hart v. Massanari, 266 F.3d 1155, 1171 (9th Cir. 2001);

see also Cetacean Cmty. v. Bush, 386 F.3d 1169, 1173 (9th Cir. 2004).

AFFIRMED.

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