Tibbetts

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CECIL TIBBETTS and DAVID 

THURBER,

Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.

THEODORE KULONGOSKI,

individually and in his official No. 07-36067 capacity, Defendant-Appellant,  D.C. No.

CV-06-00503-ALH

and OPINION

STATE ACCIDENT INSURANCE FUND

CORP., an Oregon corporation; BRENDA ROCKLIN, individually and in her official capacity, Defendants.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ancer L. Haggerty, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 4, 2009—Portland, Oregon

Filed May 29, 2009

Before: Susan P. Graber, Raymond C. Fisher and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

6357 6360 TIBBETTS v. KULONGOSKI

COUNSEL

Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Erin C. Lagesen, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, Oregon, for appellant Theodore Kulongoski. TIBBETTS v. KULONGOSKI 6361 Gregory A. Hartman and Aruna H. Masih, Bennett, Hartman, Morris & Kaplan, LLP, Portland, Oregon, for appellees Cecil Tibbetts and David…