United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant city violated the First Amendment by disciplining plaintiff police officers based on their speech, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where the speech at issue was made pursuant to plaintiffs' job duties.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/18/2008
• Decided 07/21/2009
• Published 07/21/2009

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  W. FLETCHER and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM O. BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Russell A. Robinson, San Francisco, CA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph M. Quinn, Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson, San Francisco, CA, for the appellees.