United States Ninth Circuit

Dismissal of wrongful termination, retaliation, and related state-law claims brought by employees terminated by defendant, a university's department of public safety, is reversed in part where the district court erred in applying issue preclusion to a hearing officer's determination that plaintiffs were terminated for "just cause".

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/17/2005
• Decided 02/06/2006
• Published 02/06/2006

Judges

• RESTANI, Judge., Before REINHARDT and THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI , Chief Judge, United States Court of International Trade.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kirk T. Kennedy, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard C. Linstrom, General Counsel, and Walter L. Ayers, Assistant General Counsel, University of Las Vegas, NV, for the defendants-appellees.