Mangano

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

DENNIS T. MANGANO, Ph.D., M.D.,  No. 05-17334 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-02836-PJH

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Phyllis J. Hamilton, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted November 9, 2007* San Francisco, California

Filed July 1, 2008

Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Frank R. Zapata,** District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Bybee

*The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). **The Honorable Frank R. Zapata, United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Janine D. Bloch, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Katherine B. Dowling, Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of California, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee. 7958 MANGANO v. UNITED STATES

OPINION

BYBEE, Circuit…