California Court of Appeal

In case arising from plaintiff's arrest, and later release, for making a false bomb report at LAX, appeal from verdict for defendants is affirmed as a false statement to airport personnel or peace officers about a bomb in luggage, even if not seriously made or understood, can be the basis for a violation of Penal Code section 148.1(a) and, thus the trial court's modified probable cause to arrest instruction accurately stated the applicable law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/10/2008
• Published 01/10/2008

Judges

• MOSK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara A. Levin, in pro per., for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Worthe Hanson & Worthe, Jeffrey A. Worthe and John R. Hanson, for Defendants and Respondents, United Airlines, Inc. and Mary Lynn Anderson., Mendes & Mount, Alan H. Collier, Los Angeles, and Mark R. Irvine, for Defendants and Respondents, Argenbright Security, Inc., Gladys Block, Olympia Villafuerte Lynch, and William Aquino., Vanderford & Ruiz, Rodolfo F. Ruiz, Pasadena, Heather J. Hamby and Kristen J. Nesbit, for Defendant and Respondent, City of Los Angeles.