Barnes

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CECILIA L. BARNES,  No. 05-36189 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-00926-AA

YAHOO!, INC., a Delaware Corp.,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ann L. Aiken, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 14, 2008—Portland, Oregon

Filed May 7, 2009

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Susan P. Graber, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain

5311 5314 BARNES v. YAHOO!, INC.

COUNSEL

Thomas R. Rask, III, Kell, Alterman & Runstein LLP, Port- land, Oregon, argued the cause for the appellant and filed briefs. Denise N. Gorrell, Kell, Alterman & Runstein LLP, Portland, Oregon, was also on the briefs.

Patrick J. Carome, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., argued the cause for the appellee and filed the brief; Samir Jain and C. Colin Rushing, Wilmer, Cut- ler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., and Reginald Davis and Eulonda Skyles, of Counsel for Yahoo!, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, were also on…