Avalos

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

J. AVALOS, individually and as 

representative of the class defined, No. 07-56511 Plaintiff-Appellant, v.  D.C. No.

CV-05-07602-DDP

LEROY BACA; LARRY WALDIE;

OPINION

SHAUN MATHERS,

Defendants-Appellees.  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 24, 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.

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COUNSEL

Marion R. Yagman (argued) and Joseph Reichmann of Yag- man & Yagman & Reichman of Venice Beach, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

David D. Lawrence, Michael D. Allen, and Justin W. Clark (argued) of Franscell, Strickland, Roberts & Lawrence, O.C., of Glendale, California, for the defendants-appellees.

OPINION

CALLAHAN, Circuit…