Shannon v. City of Costa Mesa

46 F.3d 1145 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Thomas SHANNON; Craig Brooks, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF COSTA MESA; City of Santa Ana; Paul Walters, Chief of Police of the Santa Ana Police Department; Raul Luna; Michael Fleet; Anthony Bertagna; William Letizio; Dave Snowden; Paul McCarthy; Robert Durham; Burton Santee, Defendants-Appellees. No. 93-56268. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted: Aug. 3, 1994. Submission Deferred: Aug. 8, 1994. Resubmitted: Jan. 5, 1995. Decided: Feb. 3, 1995. Before: O'SCANNLAIN, T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and MERHIGE, * District Judge. MEMORANDUM ** The parties are familiar with the facts, so we need not recite them here. This appeal involves two separate cases, essentially treated by Thomas Shannon and Craig Brooks as a single case despite a district court ordering the two cases severed. The alleged civil rights violations of the two plaintiffs involved different facts, circumstances, and…