United States Ninth Circuit
US v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, 01-55182
Intervention as a matter of right by police league, in action against city entities for constitutional rights violations by its police department's use of excessive force, false arrests, and improper searches, was proper where the league had a protectable interest in both the merits of the action and the remedies sought; community group's motion for intervention properly denied where group had no such interest.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/06/2002
- Decided 04/22/2002
- Published 04/22/2002
Judges
- Before BROWNING, THOMAS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Gregory G. Petersen and Andrea F. Weiss, Petersen Law Firm, a Law Corporation, Costa Mesa, CA; Mark D. Rosenbaum and Catherine E. Lhamon, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law School, Los Angeles, CA, for the proposed-interveners-appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Sarah E. Harrington, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the plaintiff-appellee and Patricia L. Glaser and R. Paul Katrinak, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.