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JOHNSON v. KNOWLES

No. 96-15852.

113 F.3d 1114 (1997)

Paul D. JOHNSON; Kevin Wadsworth; Ted Cooper; Lauren Cooper; Ray Sebastian, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. David KNOWLES; Republican Central Committee of El Dorado County; Steven Bailey; Robert Becker; Ed Borba; Bernard Carlson; Merlin Chardi; Christina Cowell; Charles Chrisman; Dan Dellinger; Tom Emigh; Michael Frenn; Maloa Gribkoff; Kevin Hanley; Tom Schumacher; John Stelzmiller; Laveta Stelzmiller; David Titus, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 21, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Michael German, Law Offices of G. Michael German, San Francisco, California, for plaintiffs-appellants.

William J. Coyne and Michael R. O'Neil, Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellee David Knowles.

Marjorie E. Manning and T.D. Bolling, Jr., Bolling, Walter & Gawthrop, Sacramento, California, for the remaining defendants-appellees.

Before: WIGGINS, JOHN T. NOONAN, Jr., and TROTT, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

TROTT, Circuit Judge.

OVERVIEW

Paul Johnson and Kevin Wadsworth, a gay couple, and a putative class of El Dorado County, California Republicans who elected Johnson and Wadsworth to the County's Republican party central committee (collectively, the "Plaintiffs") appeal the district court's order dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action for failure to state a claim.1 They alleged in their Complaint that David...

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