Beck

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CHERYL ANN BECK, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-16414 v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-00495-EHC

UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL

WORKERS UNION, Local 99, OPINION Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Earl H. Carroll, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted May 14, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed November 1, 2007

Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

14417 14420 BECK v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS

COUNSEL

Michael T. Anderson, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Helen Perry Grimwood, The Grimwood Law Firm plc, Phoe- nix, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

Local 99 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union appeals from the district court’s determination that Local 99 violated Title VII and breached its duty of fair repre- sentation in connection with the termination of one of its members, Cheryl Beck. Local 99’s appeal requires…