Case Name: John RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION; Richard Carney; Larry Mahon; Angel Acevedo; Carlos Hernandez; John Fallowfield; Doug Demming; Tom Mahr, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2003-08-14
Citations: 340 F.3d 767
Docket Number: No. 01-16232
Parties: John RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION; Richard Carney; Larry Mahon; Angel Acevedo; Carlos Hernandez; John Fallowfield; Doug Demming; Tom Mahr, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before BALDOCK, KLEINFELD and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 340
Pages: 767–768

Head Matter:
John RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION; Richard Carney; Larry Mahon; Angel Acevedo; Carlos Hernandez; John Fallowfield; Doug Demming; Tom Mahr, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 01-16232.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Oct. 9, 2002.
Filed June 10, 2003.
Amended Aug. 14, 2003.
Stuart B. Esner (briefed) and Andrew N. Chang (argued), Esner & Chang, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
Kathy M. Banke, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, California, for the defendants-appellees.
Before BALDOCK, KLEINFELD and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
The Honorable Bobby R. Baldock, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
ORDER
Appellees' Request for Modification of Opinion filed on June 18, 2003, is GRANTED.
The Opinion filed on June 10, 2003, is amended as follows:
At page 7885, first full paragraph, fine 9, delete the following sentence:' "Of course, upon remand the district court may decline to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state law defamation claim. See Big Bear Lodging Ass'n v. Snow Summit, Inc., 182 F.3d 1096, 1106 n. 9 (9th Cir.1999)."