Thomas

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ANDREW PEYTON THOMAS, 

Maricopa County Attorney;

LORENZO ARENIVAZ; TIMOTHY

WILLIS; BARBARA WILLIS,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BARBARA MUNDELL, Judge of the Superior Court of Arizona; CAREY No. 07-15388 SNYDER HYATT, Judge of the D.C. No. Superior Court of Arizona; AIMEE  CV-06-00598-PHX- ANDERSON, Commissioner, EHC Superior Court of Arizona;

OPINION

RICHARD NOTHWEHR,

Commissioner, Superior Court of Arizona; STEVEN LYNCH, Commissioner, Superior Court of Arizona; JAMES T. BLOMO, Commissioner, Superior Court of Arizona, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Earl H. Carroll, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 23, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed July 15, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Sidney R. Thomas and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges. 8947 8948 THOMAS v. MUNDELL Opinion by Judge Wallace 8950 THOMAS v. MUNDELL

COUNSEL

Michael A. Carvin, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Scot L. Claus,…