Betz

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

HEIDE BETZ,  No. 05-15704 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v. CV-03-03231-SI

TRAINER WORTHAM & COMPANY,  ORDER

INC.; DAVID P. COMO; FIRST AMENDING

REPUBLIC BANK, a Nevada OPINION AND corporation; ROBERT VILE, AMENDED Defendants-Appellees.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Susan Yvonne Illston, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 12, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed October 4, 2007 Amended February 26, 2008

Before: John T. Noonan, Jr., Ronald M. Gould, and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges.

Order; Dissent to Order by Chief Judge Kozinski Opinion by Judge Gould COUNSEL

Joseph M. Alioto, San Francisco, California, Theodore F. Schwartz, St. Louis, Missouri, and Myron Moskovitz, Berke- ley, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Sara B. Brody and Alexander M.R. Lyon, Heller Ehrman, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees. 1644 …