Legal Opinion
Culinary Workers Union v. Del Papa
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 27, 1999No. 96-16407PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam Opinion; Dissent by Judge BRUNETTI.
2Per curiam
This is an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the ground that a state attorney general’s threat to enforce a statute that criminalizes the -willful and malicious making of derogatory statements about banks violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The district court dismissed the action after the attorney general claimed that she did not have authority to enforce the statute. We conclude that the district court erred; there is a case and controversy sufficient to permit the…
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