Ditto

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JANIE DITTO, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 02-16252

JOHN A. MCCURDY, JR., M.D.,

Defendant-Appellee,  D.C. No.

CV-01-00602-HG

and OPINION PAUL S. SAKUDA, Trustee, Trustee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Helen Gillmor, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 6, 2007—Honolulu, Hawaii

Filed December 14, 2007

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, A. Wallace Tashima, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

16423 DITTO v. MCCURDY 16425

COUNSEL

Christopher A. Dias, Schutter Dias & Smith, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Richard H. Grover, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the defendant- appellee. 16426 DITTO v. MCCURDY

OPINION

MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Janie Ditto appeals the decision of the district court affirming the bankruptcy court’s grant of Defendant-Appellee John McCurdy’s motion for summary judgment and denying Ditto’s motion for leave to amend the…