Degeorge

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THE PAUL REVERE INSURANCE 

GROUP,

Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant- Appellee, and EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE No. 05-56642

 SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES, D.C. No. Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant, CV-00-01685-JWJ v. OPINION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Intervenor-Appellee,

REX K. DEGEORGE,

Defendant-Counter-Claimant- Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Jeffrey W. Johnson, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 8, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed August 30, 2007

Before: Daniel M. Friedman,* Alex Kozinski, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Daniel M. Friedman, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

11019 UNITED STATES v. DEGEORGE 11021

COUNSEL

Rex K. DeGeorge, In Pro Per, Long Beach California, for appellants Rex K. and Kathryn Palmer DeGeorge.

Brent Whittlesey, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for appellee United States of America.…