Berry v. County of Sonoma

30 F.3d 1174 128 Lab.Cas. P 33,114 , 2 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 299 Gregory BERRY; Forrest Fasig; Phillip Marcus; Dennis McAllister; Francis Oravetz; and N. Tom Siebe, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SONOMA; Sonoma County Sheriff's Department; Sonoma County Board of Supervisors; Janet Nicholas; James Harberson; Tim Smith; Nick Esposito; Ernest Carpenter; and Richard Michaelson, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees. Nos. 92-16772, 92-16816. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 11, 1994. Decided July 26, 1994. Steven L. Mayer, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees. W. David Holsberry, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before: NOONAN, NELSON, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, * District Judge. T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge: OVERVIEW 1 Gregory Berry (Berry), Phillip Marcus (Marcus), Dennis McAllister (McAllister), and Francis Oravetz (Oravetz), current and former deputy coroners (collectively referred to as "the…