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DAHL v. CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH

Nos. 94-55971, 94-55972.

84 F.3d 363 (1996)

James Christopher DAHL, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Ronald L. Shugart, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH; Ron Lowenberg, Chief of Police; Charles Conlosh, Officer individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department; John Cottriel, Officer individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department; E. Krause, individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department; Officer Rand, individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department, Defendants-Appellees. James Christopher DAHL, Plaintiff, and Ronald L. Shugart, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH; Ron Lowenberg, Chief of Police; Charles Conlosh, Officer individually and as an officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department; John Cottriel, officer individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department; E. Krause, individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department; Officer Rand, individually and as an Officer of the Huntington Beach Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 28, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Moest, Fleishman, Fisher & Moest, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiff-appellant Dahl.

Donald W. Cook, Los Angeles, California, for plaintiff-appellant Shugart.

Mark D. Rutter, Moore & Rutter, Long Beach, California, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: BRIGHT, NORRIS, and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

If there is a hell to which disputatious, uncivil, vituperative lawyers go, let it be one in which the damned are eternally locked in discovery disputes with other lawyers of equally repugnant attributes.1

This case illuminates the growing incivility among contending lawyers which mars our justice system and harms clients and the public interest. James Christopher Dahl and Ronald L. Shugart...

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