Prescott v. County of El Dorado

298 F.3d 844 Steven PRESCOTT; Robert F. Berry; Cheryl L. Jones; Karen Pierce; Christine M. Turney, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF EL DORADO; Kathy Libicki; Local 1 El Dorado County Employees Association, Defendants-Appellees. No. 01-15913. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 9, 2002. Filed August 1, 2002. Fred J. Hiestand, Sacramento, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Stacey Leyton, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, for the amicus. W. James Young, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Springfield, VA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Lawrence K. Karlton, Chief Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-95-01859-LKK. Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, B. FLETCHER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges. OPINION SCHROEDER, Chief Judge. 1 This case was before us previously, when we held, inter alia, that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge an indemnification provision in a collective bargaining agreement. Prescott v. County of El Dorado, 177 F.3d 1102, 1112 (9th Cir.1999) ( Prescott I ). That provision requires the union to hold…