United States Ninth Circuit

In an action brought by L.A. county sheriff's deputies against the sheriff, the department, supervisory officers, and internal affairs investigators, alleging plaintiffs were improperly detained at a station and later punished for failing to give non-privileged statements in connection with an internal criminal civil rights investigation into of their possible misconduct while on duty, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where defendants-supervisors did not violate the deputies' Fourth, Fifth, or Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/10/2007
• Decided 12/27/2007
• Published 12/27/2007

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth J. Gibbons, Encino, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul B. Beach and Jin S. Choi, Glendale, CA, for the defendants-appellees.