Guzman

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

EDUARDO J. GUZMAN, M.D., 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 08-55326 v. D.C. No. SANDRA SHEWRY, Director of the  08-CV-00769- California State Department of MMM Health Care Services, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Margaret M. Morrow, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 4, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed September 23, 2008

Before: David R. Thompson, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

13355 GUZMAN v. SHEWRY 13359

COUNSEL

Patric Hooper, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Inc., Los Ange- les, California, argued the cause for the plaintiff-appellant and filed briefs.

Janet E. Burns, Deputy Attorney General, State of California, Los Angeles, California, argued the cause for the defendant- appellee and filed a brief; Phillip J. Matsumoto, Deputy Attor- ney General, Richard T. Waldow, Supervising Attorney Gen- eral, Douglas M. Press, Senior Assistant…