MENDOCINO ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER v. MENDOCINO COUNTY

No. 97-17375.

192 F.3d 1283 (1999)

MENDOCINO ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER; Betty Ball; Gary Ball, Plaintiffs, Darryl Cherney; Darlene Comingore, executor of the estate of Judi Bari, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. MENDOCINO COUNTY, Mendocino County Sheriff; Tim Shea; Burl Murray, County of Mendocino Deputy Sheriff; Deputy Satterwhite; Humboldt County; Humboldt County Sheriff's Dept; Frank Vulich; Ciarabellini; David R. Williams; John Rikes; City of Oakland; Oakland Police Dept.; James Hahn; Ramon Paniagua; City of Ukiah; Ukiah Police Department; Fred Keplinger; Frank Doyle; Richard Wallace Held; Phil Sena; Stockton Buck; Patrick J. Webb; Horace Mewborn; Walt Hemje; John Conway; Timoghty McKinley; Edward D. Appel, Defendants, C. Michael Sims; Robert Chenault; Michael Sitterud, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen A. Rodrigue, Office of the City Attorney, Oakland, California, for the defendants-appellants.

Dennis Cunningham, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER, REINHARDT, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge REINHARDT; Concurrence by Judge SCHROEDER.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Shortly before noon on May 24, 1990, a bomb went off underneath Judi Bari's car seat as she drove through Oakland, California. The explosion severely injured Bari, a prominent leader of the environmental organization Earth First!, shattering her pelvis and causing other serious internal injuries that left her in constant pain for the rest of her life. The explosion also caused...

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