Dent

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DAVID DENT, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 05-15455 COX COMMUNICATIONS LAS VEGAS,  D.C. No.

CV-04-01197-RCJ

INC.; ROBERT HAYES; MC

COMMUNICATIONS, INC.; JOHN OPINION

WEHRMAN,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Robert C. Jones, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 16, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed September 10, 2007

Before: Betty B. Fletcher and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges, and Edward F. Shea,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge B. Fletcher

*The Honorable Edward F. Shea, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

David Borgen (argued), Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian, Oakland, California, and Leon Greenberg, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellant. 12112 DENT v. COX COMMUNICATIONS LAS VEGAS Rick D. Roskelley (argued) and S. Libby Henninger, Litter Mendelson, P.C., Las Vegas,…