Pool v. Vanrheen

297 F.3d 899 Vera POOL, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Doug VANRHEEN; Darcy Bjork Don Dinwiddie, Defendants-Appellees, Multnomah County; Dan Noelle, Defendants-counter-claimants-Appellees. No. 00-35997. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 10, 2002. Filed July 22, 2002. 1 COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Jacqueline L. Koch, Koch & Deering, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-counter-defendant-appellant. 2 Jeffrey M. Batchelor, Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf, Portland, OR, for the defendants-counter-claimants-appellees. 3 Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon; Garr M. King, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-00597-AS. 4 Before: LEAVY and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and RHOADES, * Senior District Judge. 5 RHOADES, Senior District Judge. 6 Vera Pool appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Defendants on: (1) her fourth claim for relief against all remaining Defendants 1 for retaliation against Pool's exercise of her constitutionally protected right to free speech under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ; and (2) her eleventh claim for relief against…