The following excerpt is from Shell Offshore, Inc. v. Greenpeace, Inc., D.C. No. 3:12 cv-0042 SLG, No. 12-35332 (9th Cir. 2013):
Sw. Voter Registration Educ. Project v. Shelley, 344 F.3d 914, 918 (9th Cir. 2003) (en banc) (internal citations omitted); see also United States v. Hinkson, 585 F.3d
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1247, 1251 (9th Cir. 2009) (en banc) (articulating our two-part test for abuse of discretion). We review findings of fact for clear error. Thalheimer v. City of San Diego, 645 F.3d 1109, 1115 (9th Cir. 2011). "Under this standard, [a]s long as the district court got the law right, it will not be reversed simply because the appellate court would have arrived at a different result if it had applied the law to the facts of the case." Id. (alteration in original) (internal quotation marks omitted).
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