Valdez

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

WILL MOSES PALMER, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 06-15458 v.

M. VALDEZ; N. WALKER, Sergeant;  D.C. No.

CV-03-04213-SI

R. LEBEDEFF; S. HENLEY; B. GIBBS;

OPINION

G. R. SALAZAR,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Susan Yvonne Illston, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 11, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed March 24, 2009

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Jr.,* M. Margaret McKeown and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Callahan; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge McKeown

*The Honorable Eugene E. Siler, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Michelle Friedland (argued) and Martin D. Bern of Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP of San Francisco, California for the plaintiff-appellant.

Julianne Mossler, Deputy Attorney General (argued), Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, David S. Chaney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Frances T. Grunder,…