Canlis v. San Joaquin Sheriff's Posse Comitatus

641 F.2d 711 Michael N. CANLIS, Sheriff-Coroner, County of San Joaquin; et al., Plaintiffs- Appellants, v. SAN JOAQUIN SHERIFF'S POSSE COMITATUS; Francis Gillings; Norman Brown; George Hill; Steven Gillings; Ernest Perry; Michael Eugene Brown; Lewis Daniel Elam; Frank Ray; Rufus Shackleford; Western Tomato Growers and Shippers, Inc.; Stockton Tomato Company, Inc.; and Southern Pacific Company, Defendants-Appellees. No. 78-3134. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Sept. 11, 1980. Decided April 6, 1981. Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 28, 1981. 1 Gary M. Messing, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. 2 George J. Tichy, II, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees; J. Michael Phelps, Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy, P.C., San Francisco, Cal., Suzanne Trimble, Memering & DeMers, Sacramento, Cal., on brief. 3 Appeal from a Judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. 4 Before WRIGHT and TANG, Circuit Judges, and GRANT * , Senior District Judge. GRANT, Senior District Judge: 5 This is an appeal from an Order of the United States District Court…