Skaff

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD SKAFF, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 06-55434 v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-00027-R

MERIDIEN NORTH AMERICA BEVERLY

HILLS, LLC, e/s/a Le Meridien, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Manuel L. Real, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 16, 2007—Pasadena, California

Filed November 1, 2007

Before: Jerome Farris and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Kevin Thomas Duffy,* District Judge.

Per Curiam Opinion; Dissent by Judge Duffy

*The Honorable Kevin Thomas Duffy, Senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation.

14333 14336 SKAFF v. MERIDIEN NORTH AMERICA

COUNSEL

Sidney J. Cohen, Sidney J. Cohen Professional Corporation, Oakland, California, for plaintiff-appellant Richard Skaff.

David E. Novitski and E. Todd Chayet, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Meri- dien North America Beverly Hills, LLC.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

We review an order of the district…