United States Ninth Circuit

A plaintiff may not relitigate a First Amendment claim if facts that are necessary to the claim were "inextricably intertwined" with issues adversely decided in a previous action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/08/2001
• Decided 12/27/2001
• Published 12/27/2001

Judges

• Before:  NOONAN, TASHIMA, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael P. Lynch, Assistant Attorney General, Olympia, Washington, for the defendants-appellants., Charles K. Wiggins, Bainbridge Island, Washington, for the plaintiff-appellee.