Gossett

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PAUL GOSSETT,  No. 06-16973 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-03523-WHA

AL CZECH, Trust Officer,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California William H. Alsup, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 4, 2009 Pasadena, California

Filed September 9, 2009

Before: William A. Fletcher, Richard R. Clifton and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.

12841 GOSSETT v. CZECH 12843

COUNSEL

Paul Gossett, pro se plaintiff-appellant.

Charles C. Lifland, Jeremy Maltby, and A. Patricia Klemic, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California, amicus curiae in support of plaintiff-appellant Paul Gossett.

Tanya L. Jackson, UCLA School of Law Ninth Circuit Clinic, Los Angeles, California, amicus curiae in support of plaintiff- appellant Paul Gossett.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Cali- fornia, and Harry T. Gower, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee Al Czech.…