Cantella

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD A. CANATELLA, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 06-15186

JOHN K. VAN DE KAMP; MARIE M.

MOFFAT; JAY GOLDMAN; NANCY  D.C. No.

CV-05-02415-BZ

MCCARTHY; CALIFORNIA BAR

OPINION

JOURNAL; ROBERT HAWLEY;

ZANASSI; MARTHA DAETWYLER,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Bernard Zimmerman, Magistrate, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 16, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed May 3, 2007

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Dean D. Pregerson,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Bybee

*The Honorable Dean D. Pregerson, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Richard A. Canatella, Esq., and Ronald Toran, Esq., Cotter & Del Carlo, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff- appellant. CANATELLA v. VAN DE KAMP 4925 R. Scott Erlewine, Esq., Phillips, Erlewine, & Given LLP, San Francisco, California,…