Nagrampa

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CONNIE A. NAGRAMPA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 03-15955 v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-00208-MJJ

MAILCOUPS INC.; THE AMERICAN

ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION, OPINION

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Martin J. Jenkins, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 6, 2004—San Francisco, California

Filed March 21, 2005

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Robert E. Cowen,* and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

*The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Kate Gordon, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Oakland, Cali- fornia, argued the cause for appellant; F. Paul Bland, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, D.C., and Sanford M. Cipinko, San Francisco, California, were on the briefs.

Glenn J. Plattner, Jenkens & Gilchrist, Los Angeles, Califor- nia, argued the cause for appellee MailCoups, Inc.; Christine S. Oh, Jenkens & Gilchrist, Los Angeles,…