Villegas
Villegas v. City of Gilroy
Opinion
Opinion
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
GEORGE VILLEGAS; BOB POELKER;
MARCELO ORTA; DON DEROSIERS,
Plaintiffs-Appellants, No. 05-15725 v. D.C. No.
CV-01-20720-JW
GILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL
ASSOCIATION; D. BERGMAN, Officer; OPINION
CITY OF GILROY,
Defendants-Appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California James Ware, District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted December 11, 2007—Pasadena, California
Filed September 3, 2008
Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Pamela Ann Rymer, Sidney R. Thomas, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Consuelo M. Callahan, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain; Dissent by Judge Thomas; Dissent by Judge Gould
12057 VILLEGAS v. GILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL 12061
COUNSEL
Randolph M. Hammock, Law Offices of Richard M. Lester, Canoga Park, California, argued the cause for the plaintiffs- appellants; Allen Lichtenstein, General Counsel and Lee Rowland, Staff Attorney, ACLU, Las Vegas, Nevada, were on the briefs.