Stanley

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TRISTA STANLEY, an individual,  Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-15134 v. TRUSTEES OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE  D.C. No.

CV-02-01131-MCE

UNIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA STATE

OPINION

UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Morrison C. England, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 18, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed January 11, 2006

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Stephen S. Trott, and Pamela Ann Rymer, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace

361 364 STANLEY v. TRUSTEES OF CALIF. STATE UNIVERSITY

COUNSEL

Chad Carlock, Law Offices of Chad Carlock, Davis, Califor- nia, for plaintiff-appellant Trista Stanley.

Peter W. Thompson, Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellees Trustees of the California State University.

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Trista Stanley appeals from a judgment on the pleadings based upon statute of limitations and state sovereign immu- nity grounds. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291(a), and we…