Legal Opinion
Michael Arthur Donovan v. Earl Reinbold and Harley Askew, Michael Arthur Donovan v. Earl Reinbold and Harley Askew
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 27, 1970No. 23671_1PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUFSTEDLER, Circuit Judge:
Two municipal police officers, Chief Earl Reinbold and Lt. Harley L. Askew of the Santa Monica Police Department, appeal from a judgment awarding $5000 damages to plaintiff Donovan on his civil rights complaint against them. (42 U.S.C. § 1983.) The complaint, inter alia, charged that Reinbold and Askew, acting under color of state law, caused Donovan’s loss of public employment as a lifeguard in retaliation for Donovan’s exercising his First Amendment rights to express himself by authoring newspaper articles concerning activities on the Santa Monica beaches. 1
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2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by130 opinions
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