United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging that Defendant-Governor violated the Due Process Clause by making negative statements about former insurance fund employee-Plaintiffs, the denial of qualified immunity to Defendant is reversed where there was no temporal nexus between Defendant's statements and Plaintiffs' termination.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/04/2009
• Decided 05/29/2009
• Published 05/29/2009

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  SUSAN P. GRABER, RAYMOND C. FISHER and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Hardy Myers, Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Erin C. Lagesen, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, OR, for appellant Theodore Kulongoski.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory A. Hartman and Aruna H. Masih, Bennett, Hartman, Morris & Kaplan, LLP, Portland, OR, for appellees Cecil Tibbetts and David Thurber.