Galdamez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARLENE GALDAMEZ,  No. 03-35682 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-01768-JJ

JOHN POTTER, Postmaster General,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon John Jelderks, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 11, 2005—Portland, Oregon

Filed July 15, 2005

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Marsha S. Berzon, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hug COUNSEL

Thomas F. Spaulding, Spaulding Cox & Schaeffer, LLP, Port- land, Oregon, for the appellant.

Ronald K. Silver, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, Oregon, for the appellee.

OPINION

HUG, Circuit Judge:

Arlene Galdamez appeals the district court’s denial of her motion for a new trial following a defense verdict in her Title VII case against the United States Postal Service. We treat Galdamez’s timely appeal from denial of the new trial motion as an appeal from final judgment. See 11 Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. Miller, & Mary Kay Kane, Federal Practice & Procedure § 2818, at 191-93…