Weaver

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RONALD R. WEAVER,  No. 04-36009 Petitioner-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-99-01045-GMK

JOAN PALMATEER,

Respondent-Appellant. 

RONALD R. WEAVER,  No. 04-36020 Petitioner-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-99-01150-JMS

JOAN PALMATEER,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Garr M. King, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 7, 2005—Portland, Oregon

Filed July 17, 2006

Before: James R. Browning, Dorothy W. Nelson, and Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain COUNSEL

Janet A. Klapstein, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Ore- gon, argued the cause for the respondent-appellant; Hardy Myers, Attorney General, and Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, were on the briefs.

Anthony D. Bornstein, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Portland, Oregon, argued the cause for the petitioner-appellee.

OPINION

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

In this case we must decide whether an Oregon state…