Dietrich

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JANELLE DIETRICH, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 06-17135 D.C. No.

JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET;

MICHELLE MALCHOW; LARRY  CV-04-00468-

HARVEY; CITY OF SPARKS; SPARKS BES(VPC)

POLICE; OFFICER POTTER; and OPINION

OFFICER MIKE CARDELLA,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Brian E. Sandoval, District Judge, Presiding

Argued June 10, 2008 Submitted November 20, 2008 San Francisco, California

Filed December 1, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges, and Robert J. Timlin,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Graber

*The Honorable Robert J. Timlin, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

15849 15852 DIETRICH v. JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET

COUNSEL

Martin G. Crowley, American Legal Services, Reno, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellant. DIETRICH v. JOHN ASCUAGA’S NUGGET 15853 Stanley H. Brown, Jr., Reno, Nevada, and Nicholas F. Frey and Stephen…