Blankerhorn

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

GARY BLANKENHORN, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 04-55938

CITY OF ORANGE; ANDY ROMERO;

DUNG NGUYEN; GARRETT ROSS;  D.C. No.

CV-02-01160-GLT

TAMARA SOUTH; GRAY, Sergeant;

OPINION

MONTANO, Officer; KAYANO, Officer; ROMAN, Officer, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary L. Taylor, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 6, 2006—Pasadena, California

Filed May 8, 2007

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges, and Samuel P. King,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge King; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Berzon

*The Honorable Samuel P. King, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Paul L. Hoffman and Michael S. Morrison, Schonbrun DeSi- mone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, Venice, California, for the appellant.

M. Lois Boback, Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, Orange, Cali- fornia; and David A. De Berry, City Attorney, City of Orange, Orange,…