United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants could assert qualified immunity on appeal from a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging termination of a city contract in retaliation for whistleblowing, but were not entitled to such immunity where a reasonable person under the circumstances would know that their behavior violated clearly established law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/12/2002
• Decided 12/20/2002
• Published 12/20/2002

Judges

• Before BEEZER, THOMAS and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Owen P. Martikan,City Attorney's Office, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Randall B. Aiman-Smith, McPhee & Aiman-Smith, Oakland, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.