United States Ninth Circuit

When nominal damages are awarded in a civil rights class action, every member of the class whose constitutional rights were violated is entitled to nominal damages.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2005
• Decided 03/29/2005
• Published 03/29/2005

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge., Before: ALARCÓN, SILER, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey B. Demain and Eileen B. Goldsmith, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee/appellant/cross-appellee., W. James Young, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Springfield, VA, for the plaintiffs-appellants/appellees/cross-appellants.