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BIGGS v. BEST, BEST & KRIEGER

Nos. 97-55233, 97-55573.

189 F.3d 989 (1999)

Julie H. BIGGS, Plaintiff, and Gerard E. Biggs; Holly G. Biggs, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BEST, BEST & KRIEGER, A Law Partnership, as an agency & as City Attorney of Redlands; Dallas Homes, Individually & as a Partner of Best, Best & Krieger; Anne T. Thomas, Individually & as a Partner of Best, Best & Krieger, Defendants, and James Foster, Individually & in his official capacity as Redlands City Councilmember; Swen Larson, Individually & in his official capacity as Redlands City Councilmember, Defendants-Appellants. Julie H. Biggs; Gerard E. Biggs; Holly G. Biggs, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Best, Best & Krieger, A Law Partnership, as an agency & as City Attorney of Redlands; Dallas Homes, Individually & as a Partner of Best, Best & Krieger; James Foster, Individually & in his official capacity as Redlands City Councilmember; Swen Larson, Individually & in his official capacity as Redlands City Councilmember, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Terzian and Kristin A. Pelletier, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green & MacRae, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellants.

Michelle Williams Court and Barrett S. Litt, Litt & Associates, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: HALL and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and WARE, District Judge.

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Julie Biggs was an associate at a private law firm that performed the services of city attorney to the City of Redlands. Two Redlands city councilmen, James Foster and Swen Larson (the "council defendants"), allegedly threatened to fire the law firm unless the political activities of the Biggs family were stopped. Eventually, the private law firm fired Julie Biggs and the Biggs family instituted the present 42 U.S.C. § 1983...

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