In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that defendant city violated the First Amendment by disciplining plaintiff police officers based on their speech, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where the speech at issue was made pursuant to plaintiffs’ job duties.
Read Huppert v. Pittsburg, No. 06-17362
Appellate Information
Argued and Submitted July 18, 2008
Filed July 21, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Tallman
Dissent by Judge W. Fletcher
Counsel
For Appellants:
Russell A. Robinson, San Francisco, CA
For Appellees:
Joseph M. Quinn, Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson, San Francisco, CA
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