United States Ninth Circuit

In a Section 1983 action arising from the controversial late-night arrests of two Phoenix newspaper executives for their publication of an article that criticized a series of commercial land transactions involving defendant-sheriff, judgment of the district court dismissing action on grounds of qualified and absolute immunity is affirmed in part and reversed in part where the actions of the special prosecutor in arranging Plaintiffs' arrests raise colorable claims of First and Fourth Amendment violations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2011
• Published 06/09/2011

Judges

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Meehan, Eileen Dennis GilBride