United States Ninth Circuit

In an action brought raising Fourth Amendment-based damages claim for false arrest, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed in part, but vacated in part and remanded where the district court lacked jurisdiction over plaintiffs' claim because it "aris[es] from the decision or action by the Attorney General to commence [removal] proceedings."

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/01/2004
• Decided 11/15/2007
• Published 11/15/2007

Judges

• Before:  OTTO R. SKOPIL, JR., JOHN T. NOONAN, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert M. Loeb, Richard A. Olderman and Anne Murphy, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants., Martin Simone, Leonard M. Roos and Helen Wong, Frank, Greenberg, Simone & Stefanski, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.