Lonberg

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

JOHN LONBERG, an individual,  Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 06-55781 v.  D.C. No.

CV-97-00237-SGL

CITY OF RIVERSIDE, a municipal corporation, OPINION Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Stephen G. Larson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 2, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed June 26, 2009

Before: Cynthia Holcomb Hall, Barry G. Silverman and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Callahan; Dissent by Judge Silverman COUNSEL

Gregory F. Hurley and Stacey L. Herter of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Costa Mesa, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Terry J. Kilpatrick, San Luis Obispo, California, and Page Wellcome, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, for the plaintiff- appellee.

OPINION

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:

In 1997, John Lonberg (“Lonberg”), a paraplegic, initiated a lawsuit against the City of Riverside (“City”), alleging vio- 8070 LONBERG v. CITY OF RIVERSIDE lations of the Americans with Disabilities Act…