LAGUANA v. GUAM VISITORS BUREAU

No. 83-2016.

725 F.2d 519 (1984)

Pilar LAGUANA, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. GUAM VISITORS BUREAU its BOARD OF DIRECTORS and Ricardo J. Bordallo, Defendants/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack A. Rosenzweig, Ching, Rosenzweig & Boertzel, Agana, Guam, for plaintiff/appellant.

J. Bradley Klemm, Klemm, Blaur & Barusch, Suzanne K. Horrigan, Agana, Guam, for defendants/appellees.

Before MERRILL and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, District Judge.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

The question presented on this appeal is whether Pilar Laguana, Appellant herein, by virtue of her employment with the Guam Visitors Bureau, is a public employee and, consequently, afforded civil rights protection from patronage dismissals.

Laguana alleges that she was employed by the Bureau and that ten days after Appellee Bordallo was sworn in as Governor of Guam she was discharged for political reasons, in violation of her rights...

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