Mortimer

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ROGER D. MORTIMER, individually  and as representative of the class of persons defined in averment 15; No. 07-55393

DEANE DANA; DON KNABE,

Plaintiffs-Appellants,  D.C. No.

CV-00-13002-DDP

v. OPINION

LEROY D. BACA,

Defendant-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted August 7, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed February 5, 2010

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges, and Ralph R. Beistline,* Chief District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Callahan

*The Honorable Ralph R. Beistline, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.

2083 2086 MORTIMER v. BACA

COUNSEL

Marion R. Yagman (argued) and Joseph Reichmann, Yagman & Yagman & Reichman, Venice Beach, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

David D. Lawrence, Michael D. Allen (argued), and Justin W. Clark, Franscell, Strickland, Roberts & Lawrence, O.C., Glen- dale, California, for…