Opinion ID: 470377
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Heading: Ruth and Howard Strandberg as Parties to the Sec. 1983 Claim.

Text: 19 The court dismissed all of the plaintiffs' federal claims except those arising out of the fifth and fourteenth amendment due process clauses. The Strandbergs interpret the court order as dismissing the Strandbergs as parties. They apparently believe when the court granted summary judgment against them regarding alleged ninth and tenth amendment violations by the defendants, it effectively dismissed the Strandbergs as parties. The Strandbergs are mistaken in believing that they cannot claim a violation of their fourteenth amendment due process rights in the companionship and society of the decedent without asserting such rights in conjunction with the ninth and tenth amendments. 1 The court did not dismiss the Strandbergs as parties. Cf. Kelson v. City of Springfield, 767 F.2d 651, 653 (9th Cir.1985) 20