Gaston

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANTHONY (TONY) GASTON,  No. 01-56367 Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. v. CV-00-06612- ANNA RAMIREZ PALMER, NM(Mc) Respondent-Appellee.  ORDER

GRANTING

PETITION FOR

REHEARING AND

AMENDING

 OPINION

Filed May 8, 2006

Before: Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges.

COUNSEL

Gerson Simon, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner- appellant.

Anthony (Tony) Gaston, California Medical Facility, Vaca- ville, California, for the petitioner-appellant.

Kyle Brodie, Michelle J. Pirozzi, AGCA — Office of the Cal- ifornia Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the respondent-appellee.

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ORDER

In light of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Evans v. Chavis, 126 S. Ct. 846 (2006), we grant the petition for panel rehear- ing.

In Gaston v. Palmer, 417 F.3d 1030 (9th Cir. 2005), we held that habeas petitioner Anthony Gaston had timely filed in federal district court. In so holding, we concluded that he was entitled to “gap” or “interval”…