Roth

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANDREW E. ROTH, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 07-16805 GREGORY REYES; MICHAEL BYRD;  D.C. No.

CV-06-02786-CRB

ANTONIO CANOVA; JACK CUTHBERT;

BROCADE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, OPINION

INC.,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Charles R. Breyer, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 12, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed June 5, 2009

Before: Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and Donald E. Walter,* Senior District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

* The Honorable Donald E. Walter, Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Willem F. Jonckheer, Aaron Darsky, Robert Schubert, Schu- bert & Reed LLP, San Francisco, California, Paul D. Wexler, Bragar, Wexler & Eagel, PC, New York, New York, Glenn F. Ostrager, Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, New York, New York, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Robin E. Wechkin,…