Warfield

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LAWRENCE J. WARFIELD, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, v.

MICHAEL ALANIZ,

Defendant, No. 07-15586 and  D.C. No.

CV-03-02390-JAT

LEONARD BESTGEN; BETTY BESTGEN;

ROBERT CARROLL; CHARLES DAVIS;

PATRICK WEHRLY; ANDREA

WEHRLY,

Defendants-Appellants. 

LAWRENCE J. WARFIELD, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MICHAEL ALANIZ, No. 07-16377 Defendant, D.C. No. and

LEONARD BESTGEN; BETTY BESTGEN;

 CV-03-02390-JAT

ROBERT CARROLL; RUDY

CROSSWELL; MARY CROSSWELL; OPINION

CHARLES DAVIS; PAUL RICHARD

PATRICK WEHRLY; ANDREA

WEHRLY,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona James A. Teilborg, District Judge, Presiding

7645 7646 WARFIELD v. BESTGEN Argued and Submitted October 23, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed June 24, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Sidney R. Thomas and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thomas WARFIELD v. BESTGEN 7649

COUNSEL

Burton M. Bentley, The Bentley Law Firm, P.C.,…