Sarausad

Volume 1 of

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CESAR SARAUSAD, 

Petitioner-Appellee, No. 05-35062 v.  D.C. No.

CAROL PORTER, CV-02-02547-JCC

Respondent-Appellant. 

CESAR SARAUSAD,  No. 05-35192 Petitioner-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-02547-JCC

CAROL PORTER,

OPINION

Respondent-Appellee.  Appeals from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 15, 2005—Seattle, Washington

Filed March 7, 2007

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, William A. Fletcher, and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge William A. Fletcher; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Reinhardt; Dissent by Judge Bybee

2549 2554 SARAUSAD v. PORTER

COUNSEL

John J. Samson, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Olympia, Washington, for the respondent-appellant.

Patricia S. Novotny, and David B. Zuckerman, Seattle, Wash- ington, for the petitioner-appellee.

OPINION

W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner…