Valley Outdoor, Inc. v. City of Riverside

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

VALLEY OUTDOOR, INC., a  California corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-55029 v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-00370-DT

CITY OF RIVERSIDE, a California municipal corporation; STEPHEN OPINION WHYLD, an individual; DOES, 1-50, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dickran M. Tevrizian, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 18, 2005—Pasadena, California

Filed April 27, 2006

Before Daniel M. Friedman,* Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain; Concurrence by Judge Friedman

*Daniel M. Friedman, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Fed- eral Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Eliot G. Disner, Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket LLP, Santa Monica, California, argued the cause for the plaintiff- appellant. Darrel C. Menthe, Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket LLP, Santa Monica, California, was on the briefs.

Timothy T. Coates, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, California, argued the cause…