Tinnell

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ZILA, INC., a Delaware  Corporation, Plaintiff-counter-defendant- No. 05-15031 Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-01345-KJD

JAMES E. TINNELL,

Defendant-counter-claimant- Appellant. 

ZILA, INC., a Delaware  Corporation, Plaintiff-counter-defendant- No. 05-15087 Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-00-01345-KJD

JAMES E. TINNELL, OPINION

Defendant-counter-claimant- Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Kent J. Dawson, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted December 8, 2006—San Francisco, California Filed September 5, 2007 Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Robert E. Cowen,* and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges. *The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.

11687 11688 ZILA, INC. v. TINNELL Opinion by Judge Berzon 11690 ZILA, INC. v. TINNELL

COUNSEL

Larry C. Johns and John H. Pilkington, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the appellant. ZILA, INC. v. TINNELL…