United States Ninth Circuit

The grant of qualified immunity to defendants for their search of plaintiff's home is reversed where defendants are liable for violating plaintiff's Fourth Amendment rights for conducting the search in an unconstitutional manner.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/23/2005
• Decided 09/21/2004
• Published 09/21/2004

Judges

• SILVERMAN, Circuit Judge., Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, B. FLETCHER, PREGERSON, REINHARDT, KOZINSKI, KLEINFELD, SILVERMAN, GRABER, McKEOWN, PAEZ, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Yagman;  Marion R. Yagman;  Kathryn S. Bloomfield, Yagman & Yagman & Reichmann & Bloomfield, Venice Beach, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney;  Janet G. Bogigian, Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees Bernard Parks, Daryl Gates, Gregory Kading and Albert Ruegg., Debra W. Yang, United States Attorney;  Leon W. Weidman, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Civil Division;  David Pinchas, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees James Black and Larry Webster., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General;  Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General;  Allen Crown, Acting Senior Assistant Attorney General;  Darrell Lepkowsky, Supervising Deputy Attorney General;  Robert Helfand, Elizabeth A. Keech, Deputies Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Guadalupe Sanchez.