O'HARA v. TEAMSTERS UNION LOCAL # 856

Nos. 97-15418, 97-16145.

151 F.3d 1152 (1998)

Helen O'HARA, Plaintiff, v. TEAMSTERS UNION LOCAL # 856, an unincorporated labor organization; Bento Leal, Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 856, and Catherine Leal, individually and as an Officer of Local 856, Defendants. Bento LEAL and Catherine Leal, Cross-Claimants-Appellees, v. TEAMSTERS UNION LOCAL # 856, Cross-Defendant-Appellant. TEAMSTERS UNION LOCAL # 856, Cross-Claimant-Appellant, v. Bento LEAL and Catherine Leal, Cross-Defendants-Appellees. Helen O'HARA, Plaintiff, v. TEAMSTERS UNION LOCAL # 856, an unincorporated labor organization, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellant, v. Bento LEAL, individually and as Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 856; Catherine Leal, individually and as an Officer of Local 856, Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Rosenfeld, Stanley S. Mallison, Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Oakland, California, for defendant-cross-claimant-appellant.

Lee Ann Huntington, Lewis D. Barr, Morgenstein & Jubelirer, San Francisco, California, for defendants-cross-claimants-appellees.

Before: SNEED and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and WALLACH, Judge.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Teamsters Local 856 appeals the district court's summary judgment in favor of former union officials Bento and Catherine Leal in the Leal's action for indemnification arising out of an underlying age discrimination/wrongful termination action brought by former union employee Helen O'Hara against the union and the Leals. We affirm.

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Helen O'Hara ("O'Hara") began working as...

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