United States Ninth Circuit

Complaint alleging defendant municipality failed to fingerprint plaintiff and otherwise confirm his identity before extradicting him to another state as another person sufficiently states a cause of action under 42 USC 1983.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2001
• Published 05/04/2001

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.