Carver

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOSEPH CARVER, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 06-35176 v. JOSEPH LEHMAN; KIMBERLY ACKER;  D.C. No.

CV-04-05570-RBL

VICTORIA ROBERTS; SIX TO BE

OPINION

NAMED DEFENDANTS,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Ronald B. Leighton, District Judge, Presiding

Argued April 17, 2007 Submitted April 28, 2008 San Francisco, California

Filed December 22, 2008

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Richard C. Tallman, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.; Concurrence by Judge Reinhardt

16643 16646 CARVER v. LEHMAN

COUNSEL

Rob McKenna, Sara J. Olson, and Gregory J. Rosen, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Criminal Justice Divi- sion, Olympia, Washington, for the defendants-appellees. CARVER v. LEHMAN 16647 Tyler A. Baker, Todd Gregorian, and Heather N. Mewes, Fen- wick & West, LLP, Mountain View, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Rob McKenna, Sara J. Olson, and Gregory J. Rosen, Office of the Washington Attorney General, Criminal…