United States Ninth Circuit

Local legislators are not entitled to qualified immunity for indemnifying police officers from punitive damages awards in bad faith.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2001
• Published 05/11/2001

Judges

• MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BROWNING, BRUNETTI, and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Cindy S. Lee, Franscell, Strickland, Roberts & Lawrence, Pasadena, California, for the defendant-appellant., Stephen Yagman, Marion R. Yagman, Kathryn S. Bloomfield, Joseph Reichmann, Yagman & Yagman & Reichmann, Venice Beach, California, Richard H. Millard, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.