MacDonald

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

CHRISTOPHER MACDONALD, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 08-15239 v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-00084-LEK

KAHIKOLU, LTD., doing business as Frogman Charters, OPINION Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Leslie E. Kobayashi, Magistrate Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 12, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed September 10, 2009

Before: Procter Hug, Jr., Betty B. Fletcher and Michael Daly Hawkins, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge B. Fletcher

13143 MACDONALD v. KAHIKOLU, LTD. 13145

COUNSEL

John R. Hillsman, McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky, San Fran- cisco, California; Howard G. McPherson, Cronin, Fried, Sekiya, Kekina & Fairbanks, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Richard C. Wootton and Mitchell S. Griffin, Cox, Wootton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee. 13146 MACDONALD v. KAHIKOLU, LTD.

OPINION

B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

For a second time, plaintiff Christopher MacDonald appeals the district court’s judgment…