Elliott

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

VALINDA JO ELLIOTT, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 07-15041 WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBAL  D.C. No.

CV-05-04240-MHM

COURT; HONORABLE JOHN DOE

TRIBAL JUDGE; and WHITE OPINION

MOUNTAIN APACHE TRIBE,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Mary H. Murguia, District Judge, Presiding

Argued October 22, 2008 Resubmitted May 7, 2009 San Francisco, California

Filed May 14, 2009

Before: Sidney R. Thomas and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges, and Stephen G. Larson,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Graber

*The Honorable Stephen G. Larson, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Cari M. McConeghy-Harris, Law Offices of David Michael Cantor, P.C., Tempe, Arizona, for the plaintiff-appellant. 5822 ELLIOTT v. WHITE MOUNTAIN Robert C. Brauchi, Tucson, Arizona, and Alexander B. Rit- chie, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Whiteriver, Arizona, for the…