United States Ninth Circuit

In a civil rights suit alleging that defendants detained plaintiff for psychiatric evaluation without probable cause in violation of her federal and state law rights, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where probable cause existed to justify detaining plaintiff on two occasions, and the district court's evidentiary and procedural rulings did not compel a reversal of the judgment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/18/2007
• Decided 11/29/2007
• Published 11/29/2007

Judges

• ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, Senior Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barry K. Tagawa, San Francisco, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph M. Quinn and Tricia Hynes (argued), Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson, Oakland, CA, for the appellees.