United States Ninth Circuit

District court incorrectly assumed that factual allegations in a plaintiffs' Section 1983 complaint must be presumed true when the Defendant moves for summary judgment based on official immunity. The court should have considered evidentiary support issues.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/02/2003
• Decided 06/04/2004
• Published 06/04/2004

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PREGERSON, COWEN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John W. Wood, Wood & Wood, La Jolla, CA, for Appellant Edward Cervantes., Morris G. Hill, Office of the County Counsel, San Diego, California, for Appellant Keith Burt.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eugene G. Iredale,Douglas S. Gilliland, San Diego, CA, for the appellees.