JOHNSON v. NATIONAL ASS'N OF LETTER CARRIERS BRANCH

Nos. 97-55844, 97-55911.

182 F.3d 1071 (1999)

E. Jean JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS BRANCH 1100, and All Individuals; National Association of Letter Carriers AFL-CIO, Defendants-Appellees. Basilio Fontana, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sixth Vice President; Kirk Baiz, Seventh Vice President; Richard Misner, Eighth Vice President; Norberta Fullen, Secretary-Treasurer/HBR; Bonnie Lippincott, Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Richard Felde, Trustee; Bruce MacDuffee, Union Member; Michael Rotcher, Union Member; Barbara Stickler, Union Member, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 2, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher L. Diener, Newport Beach, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard J. Mathias, Curiale, Dellaverson, Hirschfeld, Kelly & Kraemer, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 1100 and individual defendants-appellees.

Michael R. Feinberg, Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee National Association of Letter Carriers.

Before: BEEZER, HALL, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.


TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:

Basilio Fontana and E. Jean Johnson appeal the district court's award of summary judgment to the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 1100 and certain individual members (collectively the "Branch"), and the National Association of Letter Carriers ("NALC"). Fontana and Johnson, the former president and former fourth vice-president of the Branch, respectively, sued the Branch and the NALC for violations of their free speech and procedural...

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