Opinion ID: 737240
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Committee Defendants:

Text: 8 Appellants presented no evidence that Martin Wilson, Director of the Pete Wilson for Governor Campaign Committee, or Tom Cooper, a committee volunteer, participated in any way in the arrests at the Cathedral. Summary judgment was therefore properly granted as to them. See Hansen v. Black, 885 F.2d 642, 646 (9th Cir.1989) (supervisory liability requires personal involvement in the constitutional deprivation or a sufficient causal connection between the supervisor's wrongful conduct and the constitutional violation). 9 Appellants argued that the Campaign Committee was liable for the alleged wrongdoing of the Inaugural Committee. They failed, however, to offer any evidence indicating that an alter-ego relationship existed between the Campaign Committee and the Inaugural Committee. In order to establish alter ego liability, appellants must establish: 1) control of one entity by another, 2) that one entity is the mere conduit of the business of the other, and 3) recognition of a separate existence would occasion fraud and injustice. See Calvert v. Huckins, 875 F.Supp. 674, 678 (E.D.Cal.1995); Marr v. Postal Union Life Ins. Co., 105 P.2d 649, 654 (Cal.Ct.App.1940). Appellants failed to establish that such a relationship existed between the committees. Further, the claims against the Inaugural Committee were derivative of the claims made against committee volunteer Colliau, who was found by the jury not to have violated any constitutional rights in his citizen's arrest of appellants. Therefore, appellants suffered no constitutional injury and dismissal as to these defendants was proper.