Fleming

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

LESTER FLEMING, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 07-16427 v. D.C. No.

YUMA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER;  CV-05-03906-PHX-

YUMA ANESTHESIA MEDICAL ROS

SERVICES, OPINION

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Roslyn O. Silver, District Judge, Presiding

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

Filed November 19, 2009

Before: Ronald M. Gould and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Timothy Tymkovich,* Circuit Judge.

Opinion by Judge Bybee

*The Honorable Timothy Tymkovich, United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Stanley Lubin (argued), Lubin & Enoch, P.C., Phoenix, Ari- zona; Stephanie M. Marnin, Outten & Golden, L.L.P., Stam- ford, Connecticut, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Sandra J. Creta, Quarles & Brady L.L.P., Phoenix, Arizona, for the defendants-appellees.

OPINION

BYBEE, Circuit…