Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Knowles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 21, 1997No. 96-15852PublishedCited by 150 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TROTT, Circuit Judge.
OVERVIEW
Paul Johnson and Kevin Wadsworth, a gay couple, and a putative class of El Dorado County, California Republicans who elected Johnson and Wadsworth to the County’s Republican party central committee (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) appeal the district court’s order dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to state a claim.1 They alleged in their Complaint that David Knowles — a member of the California Assembly and ex officio member of the El Dorado County Republican Party Central Committee (the “Committee”) — and 16 other Committee members…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Flagg Bros., Inc. v. BrooksSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Blum v. YaretskySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by150 opinions
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- George Thomas Franklin v. Jim Fox Martin Murray Robert Morse Bryan Cassandro John Cuneo, Sergeant Eileen Franklin-LipskerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2002
- Kenneth E. Sutton, Jr. v. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, a California Non-Profit CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
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