Gibson

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PAULA LAUREN GIBSON and 

ANNETTE D. GOODE-PARKER,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. No. 07-56124

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,

STATE OF CALIFORNIA; BILL  D.C. No.

CV-07-00838-FMC

LOCKYER; RICHARD M. FRANK;

OPINION

JAMES THOMAS GREENE; KATHLEEN

FOOTE; LOUIS MAURO; JACOB

APPLESMITH; and BARBARA MOTZ, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Florence-Marie Cooper, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 17, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed January 27, 2009

Before: Susan P. Graber and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges, and Edward C. Reed,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Graber; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Clifton

*The Honorable Edward C. Reed, Jr., Senior United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Paula Lauren Gibson, Los Angeles, California, in propria per- sona, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Stephanie L. Quinn, Randolph Cregger & Chalfant LLP, Sac- ramento,…