United States Ninth Circuit

A police officer was entitled to qualified immunity given the totality of the circumstances facing him at the time of plaintiff's arrest, thus dismissal of a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim arising from an arrest for robbery under California law is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/11/2003
• Decided 07/10/2003
• Published 07/10/2003

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judge, and JAMES K. SINGLETON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank A. Weiser,Law Offices of Frank A. Weiser, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Max C. Chiang, Law Offices of Max C. Chiang, Cerritos, CA, and Toni Rae Bruno, Dwyer, Daly, Brotzen & Bruno, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.