United States Ninth Circuit

A district court, in ruling on a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, may not consider defendants' declarations asserting their good faith belief that the mentally disabled man they arrested was a fugitive from justice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/14/2001
• Published 02/14/2001

Judges

• Before:  PREGERSON, W. FLETCHER and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Seplow and Wilmer J. Harris, Schonbrun & De Simone, Venice, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janet Bogigian, Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellees, City of Los Angeles, Karl Holmstrom, Julie McCallister, and Art Haddock.  Deon J. Nossel, Deputy Attorney General (Argued);  Marion R. Buchbinder, Assistant Attorney General (Brief), attorneys for defendants-appellees, Philip Coombe, Jr. and The State of New York Department of Correctional Services.