Legal Opinion
Gilbrook v. City of Westminster
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 21, 1999No. Nos. 96-56306, 96-56375, 97-55314PublishedCited by 422 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
This action involves claims by six individual firefighters against the City of Westminster (City) and ten individual defendants, each of whom was an officer and employee of the City. The City discharged four plaintiffs and disciplined the other two, after plaintiffs became embroiled in a bitter public controversy concerning the City’s funding of fire protection services, the firefighters’ use of public funds, and the political activities of the firefighters’ union. Plaintiffs brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that defendants, individually and…
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