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CHATEAUBRIAND v. GASPARD

No. 95-36086.

97 F.3d 1218 (1996)

Francisco CHATEAUBRIAND, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marcus GASPARD and Kate Brown Gaspard; Martin Brown and Betty Brown; Sid Snyder and Jane Doe Snyder; James Jesernig and Jane Doe Jesernig; and Paul Berendt and Jane Doe Berendt, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Dale Kamerrer, Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich, Olympia, WA, for defendants-appellants.

Paul A. Lindenmuth, Law Offices of Neil J. Hoff, Tacoma, WA, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WRIGHT, BEEZER and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether state legislators are immune from suit for allegedly firing an employee who opposed performing illegal political campaign activity.

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In 1985 the Washington State Senate Democratic Caucus (the "Caucus") hired Francisco Chateaubriand as a public information officer in its communications department. Chateaubriand was promoted to the position of Communications section Coordinator in April 1990. The...

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