Arnold

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GRADY ARNOLD,  No. 04-15194 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-01-20810-JF

D.L. RUNNELS,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Jeremy Fogel, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 13, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed August 24, 2005

Before: Myron H. Bright,* A. Wallace Tashima, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bright; Dissent by Judge Callahan

*The Honorable Myron H. Bright, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

11385 11388 ARNOLD v. RUNNELS

COUNSEL

Amitai Schwartz, Esq., Elizabeth Letcher, Esq., Emeryville, California, for the appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assis- tant Attorney General, Peggy S. Ruffra, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Morris Beatus, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the appellee. ARNOLD v. RUNNELS …