United States Ninth Circuit

A physician with the Department of Public Health was not a member of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Civil Service, and was not entitled to notice of termination and an opportunity to respond, thus a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim was not actionable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2002
• Decided 01/23/2003
• Published 01/23/2003

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before: SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ALARCÓN and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay H. Sorensen, Saipan, MP, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew Clayton, Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan, MP, for the defendants-appellees.