Talamantes

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RUBEN TALAMANTES, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RAY LEYVA; GILBERT AGUILAR; LEE No. 06-55939

BACA; R. DOYLE CAMPBELL;

D.C. No.

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; LOS

ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S  CV-04-06792-

DEPARTMENT; JOHN L. SCOTT; GAF(Ex)

DENNIS A. CONTE; JOHN VANDER OPINION

HORCK; DENNIS H. BURNS;

KENNETH J. BRAZILE; LEE C.

MCCOWN; JOHN H. CLARK,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 16, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed August 6, 2009

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Jerome Farris and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace

10569 TALAMANTES v. LEYVA 10571

COUNSEL

Jeff Dominic Price, Santa Monica, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

John J. Collins, Tomas A. Guterres, Douglas Fee (argued), and Catherine Mason-Mathers, Law Offices of Collins, Col- lins, Muir & Stewart, LLP, South Pasadena, California, for the defendants-appellees. 10572 …