United States Ninth Circuit

Government supervisors who terminated civil service employee without cause or termination hearing are not entitled to qualified immunity where territorial supreme court had already held unconstitutional the law that classified employee as at will.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/16/2001
• Decided 07/03/2001
• Published 07/03/2001

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  B. FLETCHER, CANBY, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore R. Mitchell and Jeanne H. Rayphand, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• L. David Sosebee (argued), William E. Betz (on brief), Assistant Attorney General, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, for the defendant-appellees.