Nurre
Nurre v. Whitehead
Opinion
Opinion
TALLMAN, J.
FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
KATHRYN NURRE,
Plaintiff-Appellant, v. No. 07-35867 CAROL WHITEHEAD, in her official D.C. No.
CV-06-00901-RSL
and individual capacity as the Superintendent of Everett School OPINION District No. 2, Defendant-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Robert S. Lasnik, Chief District Judge, Presiding
Argued and Submitted January 22, 2009—Seattle, Washington
Filed September 8, 2009
Before: Robert R. Beezer, Richard C. Tallman, and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Tallman; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.
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COUNSEL
W. Theodore Vander Wel, Vander Wel & Jacobson, Bishop & Kim, PLLC, Bellevue, Washington, for the appellant.
Michael A. Patterson, Patterson Buchanan Fobes Leitch & Kalzer, PS, Seattle, Washington, for the appellees.
Phylis Skloot Bamberger; Marc D. Stern; Zhubin Parang, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP; for amicus curiae American Jewish Congress.