MacDonald

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CHRISTOPHER MACDONALD, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-15979 v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-00084-LEK

KAHIKOLU LTD., dba Frogman Charters, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Leslie E. Kobayashi, Magistrate, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 14, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed March 31, 2006

Before: Arthur L. Alarcón and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges, and H. Russel Holland,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Alarcón

*The Honorable H. Russel Holland, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Howard G. McPherson, Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fair- banks, Honolulu, Hawaii; John R. Hillsman, McGuinn, Hills- man & Palefsky, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff- appellant.

Richard C. Wootton, Cox, Wootton, Griffin, Hansen & Pou- lous, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant- appellee. 3596 MACDONALD v. KAHIKOLU LTD.

OPINION

ALARCÓN, Circuit…