United States Ninth Circuit

Detectives are entitled to qualified immunity to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims, alleging a conspiracy to arrest plaintiff without probable cause, where evidence available to them prior to arrest was reasonably trustworthy. Plaintiff's daughter was not acting under color of state law for purposes of section 1983.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/06/2001
• Decided 11/27/2002
• Published 11/27/2002

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: B. FLETCHER, BOOCHEVER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis P. Riordan,Riordan and Rosenthal, San Francisco, CA;  Andrew C. Schwartz, Casper, Meadows, and Schwartz, Walnut Creek, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James M. Wagstaffe and Pamela Urueta, Kerr and Wagstaffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellees Martin Murray, Robert Morse, Bryan Cassandro, and John Cuneo., Richard S. Diestel, Bledsoe, Catheart, Diestel, Livingston and Pedersen, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Eileen Franklin-Lipsker.