Watts

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CHRISTOPHER L. WATTS,

Plaintiff-Appellee,

v. No. 03-16665

J. MCKINNEY, D.C. No.

Defendant-Appellant, CV-98-03328-SI

and OPINION

S. J. STEINBERG,

Defendant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Susan Yvonne Illston, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted November 3, 2004* San Francisco, California

Filed January 10, 2005

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, John T. Noonan, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Noonan

_________________________________________________________________ *The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for submission without oral argument pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). 293 294

COUNSEL

Jennifer G. Perkell, Deputy Attorney General, San Fran- cisco, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Christopher Watts, in pro per.

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OPINION

NOONAN, Circuit Judge:

In his handwritten declaration under…