Summers

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOY BLACK SUMMERS, as Personal  Representative of the Estate of Betty Jane Black, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, Nos. 05-35220 v. 05-35268 DELTA AIR LINES, INC., and SKYWEST AIRLINES, INC.,  D.C. No.

CV-03-00134-

Defendants-Appellees/Cross- LBE Appellants, OPINION and

DOES 20,

Defendants.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Montana Leif B. Erickson, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 7, 2007—Seattle, Washington

Filed November 27, 2007

Before: Susan P. Graber, Richard A. Paez, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Graber

15187 SUMMERS v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC. 15189

COUNSEL

Dane J. Durham, Sebastopol, California, for the plaintiff- appellant/cross-appellee. 15190 SUMMERS v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC. Mark S. Williams, Williams Law Firm, P.C., Missoula, Mon- tana, for the defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

Betty Jane Black disembarked from a SkyWest Airlines air- plane, slipped and…