Paolini

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BRUCE P. PAOLINI, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 03-35724 ALBERTSON’S INC.; PLAN  D.C. No.

CV-02-00041-BLW

ADMINISTRATOR, of Albertson’s amended and restated stock-based ORDER incentive plan, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho B. Lynn Winmill, District Judge, Presiding

Argued February 17, 2005 Submitted March 16, 2005 Seattle, Washington

Filed August 10, 2005

Before: Betty B. Fletcher and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Samuel P. King,* District Judge.

COUNSEL

Bruce P. Paolini, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Pro se plaintiff- counterdefendant-appellant.

*The Honorable Samuel P. King, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

10267 10268 PAOLINI v. ALBERTSON’S J. Walter Sinclair, Harry S. Chandler, & Wade L. Woodard, Stoel Rives LLP, Boise, Idaho, for defendant- counterclaimant-appellee Albertson’s, Inc., and defendant- appellee the Plan Administrator of Albertson’s Amended and Restated…