United States Ninth Circuit

In a Federal Tort Claims action involving an unsuccessful prosecution of a police officer on illegal gambling charges, summary judgment and judgment on the merits in favor of defendant-government on false arrest, false imprisonment, abuse of process, and malicious prosecution is affirmed over claims of error as to: 1) summary judgment on a false imprisonment claim; 2) findings of fact regarding the malicious prosecution claim; and 3) dismissal of the malicious prosecution claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/04/2006
• Decided 05/10/2006
• Published 05/10/2006

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge., Before ALFRED T. GOODWIN, BETTY B. FLETCHER, and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian C. Leighton, Clovis, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Catherine J. Cerna, Assistant United States Attorney, Sacramento, CA, with whom E. Robert Wright, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Sacramento, CA, was on brief, for the defendant-appellee.