United States Ninth Circuit

In a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, the district court erred in failing to instruct the jury that it could award punitive damages if it found that defendant acted in an oppressive manner.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2004
• Decided 08/22/2005
• Published 08/22/2005

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before: B. FLETCHER, NOONAN, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Yagman, Marion R. Yagman, Joseph Reichmann, Yagman & Yagman & Reichmann, Venice Beach, CA, Kathryn S. Bloomfield, Shreveport, LA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• LeGrand H. Clegg, III, City Attorney, Wilmont A. Odom, Deputy City Attorney, Cal P. Saunders, Deputy City Attorney, Compton, CA, for the defendant-appellee.