Scheuring

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

KEVIN SCHEURING,  No. 04-56844 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-03-06613-RZ

TRAYLOR BROTHERS, INC.,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Ralph Zarefsky, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 16, 2006—Pasadena, California

Filed February 14, 2007

Before: Richard D. Cudahy,* Betty B. Fletcher, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Cudahy

*The Honorable Richard D. Cudahy, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, sitting by designation.

1847 1850 SCHEURING v. TRAYLOR BROTHERS

COUNSEL

John R. Hillsman, McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky, San Fran- cisco, California, and David W. Robertson, Austin, Texas, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Mitchell S. Griffin and Richard C. Wootton, Cox, Wootton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee. SCHEURING v. TRAYLOR BROTHERS 1851

OPINION

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Kevin Scheuring appeals an adverse…