Gupta

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SUBIR GUPTA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 04-56389 v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-00152-RT

THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL,

LTD., OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Robert J. Timlin, Senior District Judge, Presiding

Argued October 25, 2006 Pasadena, California Submitted May 30, 2007

Filed May 30, 2007

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Jr.,* A. Wallace Tashima, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea; Dissent by Judge Tashima

*The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Mark S. Priver, Ohashi & Priver, Pasadena, California, and David A. Nelson, Nelson Law Firm, P.C., Pasadena, Califor- nia, for the the defendant-appellant. 6454 GUPTA v. THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL Luis E. Lopez, Lopez & Morris, LLP, Riverside, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

Thai Airways, International (“Thai Airways”)…