ARIAS v. RAIMONDO

No. 15-16120.

860 F.3d 1185 (2017)

Jose Arnulfo ARIAS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Anthony RAIMONDO, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 22, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Ho (argued) and Stacy Villalobos , The Legal Aid Society — Employment Law Center, San Francisco, California; Esmeralda Zendejas and Blanca A. Bañuelos , California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Stockton, California; Michael L. Meuter , California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Salinas, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant. Scott P. Dixler (argued) and Peder K. Batalden , Horvitz & Levy LLP, Burbank, California, for Defendant-Appellee.

Nora A. Preciado and Joshua T. Stehlik , National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, California; Jessica Hahn , National Immigration Law Center, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae National Immigration Law Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus, Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Los Angeles, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Centro Legal de la Raza, Farmworker Justice, Jobs with Justice, National Employment Law Project, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice, UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Worksafe Inc.

Before: Stephen S. Trott, Kim McLane Wardlaw, and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Can an employer's attorney be held liable for retaliating against his client's employee because the employee sued his client for violations of workplace laws? The district court's answer was no. We respectfully disagree.

We have jurisdiction over this timely appeal pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291...

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