Rutti

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MIKE RUTTI, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, and

KEVIN VERMILLION; ISAAC

CHARLESWORTH; MURRAY M.

MYERS; DAN JOHNSTON; ORLANDO No. 07-56599

JASON WHITE; GICARDO LEAL;

PHILIP REDFIELD; JEROME CHARLES  D.C. No.

CV-06-00350-DOC

WEISS; NICK KAMINSKY; MARCUS E.

MCKAY; RICHARD DEMELO; CHRIS OPINION

MEACHAM; ESHON D. MITCHELL,

Plaintiffs, v.

LOJACK CORPORATION, INC.,

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 4, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed August 21, 2009

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

Opinion by Judge Callahan; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Hall; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Silverman

11449 RUTTI v. LOJACK CORP. 11453

COUNSEL

Matthew Righetti and John Glugoski (argued) of the Righetti Law Firm of San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs- appellants.

Peter D. Holbrook, Dan…