Brown

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DARRYL BROWN; MARTIN V. 

WHITFIELD,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, No. 06-55699 v.  D.C. No.

CV-06-00316-SVW

CITY OF LOS ANGELES, a municipal corporation organized under the OPINION laws of the State of California, Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 6, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed April 10, 2008

Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Susan P. Graber, and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion COUNSEL

Jerome Zamos, Zamos & Okojie, Woodland Hills, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul L. Winnemore, Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles, Cal- ifornia, for the defendant-appellee.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

I.

Plaintiffs Darryl Brown and Martin Whitfield were injured in the line of duty as officers of the City of Los Angeles 3786 BROWN v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES Police Department (“LAPD”). They both applied for benefits under LAPD’s disability retirement pension, which contains an…