COLLINS v. WOMANCARE

No. 88-5703.

878 F.2d 1145 (1989)

James F. COLLINS, Jr.; Tammy Lee Collins; Kimberlee Huckaby; Joan S. Patton; Cheryl Sullenger, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. WOMANCARE, a Feminist Woman's Health Center, a California nonprofit corporation; Deborah Fleming; Patricia O'Neil, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Merin, Kanter, Merin, Dickstein & Kirk, Sacramento, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Lloyd E. Tooks, San Diego, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before WALLACE, CANBY and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

The contentious public debate over the propriety of abortions forms the background of the appeal before us. As an outgrowth of a picketing episode, the district court entered a judgment awarding damages in favor of five plaintiffs in their action for false arrest and for deprivation of constitutional rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Womancare, two of its employees, and its directors (Womancare...

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