United States Ninth Circuit

An elected county prosecutor need not have retained the at-will confidential secretaries hired by the predecessor he defeated (who supported the predecessor politically), as the First Amendment did not protect the employees' dismissal for political reasons.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/2002
• Decided 04/08/2003
• Published 04/08/2003

Judges

• KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge., Before: CANBY, KLEINFELD, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven C. Lacy,Lacy & Kane, P.S., East Wenatchee, WA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary P. Gaston, Perkins Coie, LLP, Spokane, WA, for the appellee.