John

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MARGARET JOHN, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-56125 v. D.C. No.

CITY OF EL MONTE,

Defendant,  CV-04- 00048(AHM) and

OPINION

ERIC YOUNGQUIST,

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 7, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed September 26, 2007

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

Opinion by Judge Friedman

*Daniel M. Friedman, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Fed- eral Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Peter J. Ferguson, Ferguson, Praet & Sherman, Santa Ana, California, and Timothy T. Coates, Greines, Martin, Stein & 13254 JOHN v. YOUNGQUIST Richland LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellant Eric Youngquist.

John Burton, The Law Offices of John Burton, Pasadena, Cal- ifornia, and William J. Osborne, Osborne & Associates, Sher- man Oaks, California, for appellee Margaret John.

OPINION

FRIEDMAN, Circuit…