Bolt

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CAROL BOLT,  No. 06-35993 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v.  CV-02-00021-F-

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RRB

Defendant-Appellee.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska Ralph R. Beistline, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 10, 2007—Anchorage, Alaska

Filed December 3, 2007

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, John T. Noonan, and Richard A. Paez, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Paez; Concurrence by Judge Wallace

15599 15602 BOLT v. UNITED STATES

COUNSEL

Robert A. Sparks, Law Office of Robert A. Sparks, Fairbanks, Alaska, for the appellant.

Eric J. Feigin, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Wash- ington, D.C., for the appellee.

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

After Carol Bolt fell on snow and ice in the common park- ing area of the U.S. Army apartment complex where she BOLT v. UNITED STATES 15603 lived, in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, she brought a negligence claim against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act…