Foster

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THOMAS FOSTER,  No. 06-56843 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-02124-DMS

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California Dana M. Sabraw, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 6, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed April 16, 2008

Before: John R. Gibson,* Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Graber

*The Honorable John R. Gibson, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Richard M. Barnett, San Diego, California, for the plaintiff- appellant.

David B. Wallace, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, California, for the defendant-appellee. 4044 FOSTER v. UNITED STATES

OPINION

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Thomas Foster sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b), alleging that agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (“ATF”) damaged…