Keenan

Shirley and Daniel Keenan (“the Keen-ans”), a married couple, appeal the district court’s summary judgment in favor of former Grant County District Court Judge Wallace E. Allan (“Allan”); Grant County District Court Judge Janis M. Whitener-Moberg (“Whitener-Moberg”); Grant County (“the County”); Helen Fancher, Leroy Allison, and Tim Snead, personally and in their capacities as members of the Grant County Board of Commissioners (“the Commissioners”), in the Keenans’ action relating to Shirley Keenan’s (“Keenan’s”) discharge from her position as Grant County District Court Administrator. The complaint named nineteen causes of action, both state and federal. The district court published a sixty-page opinion dismissing all of Keenan’s claims. See Keenan v. Allan, 889 F.Supp. 1320, 1339-51 (E.D.Wash.1995).

Pursuant to our jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , we affirm the district court’s opinion subject to the qualifications discussed below.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

This is a case arising out of a very unpleasant work situation; the unpleasantness is compounded by plaintiffs’ aggressive legal tactics, the parties’ lengthy briefs, and a voluminous and poorly organized record.…