McGuire

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JERRY MCGUIRE,  No. 06-15812 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-02694-JAT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona James A. Teilborg, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 15, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed December 24, 2008

Before: Sidney R. Thomas and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Frederic Block,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Thomas

*The Honorable Frederic Block, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Robert M. Cook; Phoenix, Arizona; David A. Domina and James F. Cann, Omaha, Nebraska, for the appellant. MCGUIRE v. UNITED STATES 16741 Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Assistant Attorney General, Richard G. Patrick, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Phoenix, Arizona; Eliza- beth A. Peterson, Katherine J. Barton, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Wash- ington,…