CULINARY WORKERS UNION, LOCAL 226 v. DEL PAPA

No. 96-16407.

200 F.3d 614 (1999)

CULINARY WORKERS UNION, LOCAL 226, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frankie Sue DEL PAPA, in her official capacity as Attorney General for the State of Nevada, Defendant-Appellee. Nevada Bankers Association, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard G. McCracken, McCracken, Stemerman, Bowen & Holsberry, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Michael T. Anderson, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas J. Ray, Solicitor General, Carson City, Nevada, and Susan B. Weingarten, Deputy Attorney General, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the defendant-appellee.

John P. Sande, III and Debra B. Robinson, Varas & Bartlett, Reno, Nevada, for the intervenor.

Before: BROWNING, SKOPIL and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.


Per Curiam Opinion; Dissent by Judge BRUNETTI.

PER 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...

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