Jerden

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DANIEL JERDEN; CATRINA JERDEN,  No. 04-35889 Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-03056-JPC

PAUL G. AMSTUTZ, M.D.,

OPINION

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

Argued and Submitted September 13, 2005—Portland, Oregon

Filed December 9, 2005

Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

16115 16118 JERDEN v. AMSTUTZ

COUNSEL

Megan B. Annand, Law Office of Megan B. Annand, Med- ford, Oregon, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert L. Cowling (argued) and Benjamin M. Bloom, Cowl- ing, Heysell, Plouse, Ingalls & Moore, Medford, Oregon, for the defendant-appellee. JERDEN v. AMSTUTZ 16119

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity case, Plaintiffs-Appellants Mr. Daniel and Ms. Catrina Jerden (“Plaintiffs”) brought a claim of medical negligence against Defendant-Appellee Dr. Paul G. Amstutz (“Defendant”) after Defendant, a neurosurgeon, mistakenly diagnosed Mr. Jerden as…