United States Ninth Circuit

Election officials who conducted pre-election review of voter eligibility for one party's voters and post-election review for voters of other party when complaints came in at same time were not entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/14/2000
• Decided 05/10/2001
• Published 05/10/2001

Judges

• WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HUG, TROTT, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy J. Gottfried (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for the defendants-appellants., Robert Goldberg (on brief), Office of the Attorney General, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for the defendants-appellants., Bruce Lee Jorgensen (argued), Palau/Micronesia Law & Mediation Center, Koror, Palau, for the plaintiffs-appellees., John M. Chambers (on brief), Law Office of John M. Chambers, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for the plaintiffs-appellees.