DIRUZZA v. COUNTY OF TEHAMA

No. 01-17461.

323 F.3d 1147 (2003)

Sherol DIRUZZA, aka Sherl Janc, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF TEHAMA; Robert Heard; Jerry Floyd, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 21, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison Fairchild, Alameda, CA, and David A. Prentice, Prentice & Schaap, Sacramento, CA, for the appellant.

J. Scott Smith and Laurence L. Angelo, Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff, Sacramento, CA, for appellee, County of Tehama.

Stephen E. Horan, Porter, Scott, Weiberg & Delehant, Sacramento, CA, for appellees, Robert Heard and Jerry Floyd.

Before McKEOWN and PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.


OPINION

POLLAK, District Judge.

With this case, this court has inherited a rather complicated procedural history, comprising parallel litigation in state and federal tribunals situated in California. Today, we are asked to disentangle the threads woven by these separate court systems as they have independently sought to resolve the same core conflict. Specifically, our task in the current chapter of the dispute is to determine the combined preclusive effect...

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