United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on a false arrest, judgment for Defendants is affirmed where: 1) the officers had probable cause to arrest Plaintiffs; 2) Defendant-Prosecutor had probable cause to prosecute Plaintiffs; and 3) the city did not ratify the officers' conduct.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/2009
• Decided 02/26/2009
• Published 02/26/2009

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  B. FLETCHER, PAMELA ANN RYMER and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David H. Smith, Garvey Shubert Barer, Seattle, WA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Zehnder, Jr., Scheer & Zehnder, Seattle, WA, for appellees Thuring and Van Santford., Andrew G. Cooley, Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S., Seattle, WA, for appellee Kitsap County., David P. Horton, Law Office of David P. Horton, Inc. P.S., Silverdale, WA, for appellees City of Bremerton and Robert Forbes., Mark C. Jobson, Assistant Attorney General of Washington, Olympia, WA, for appellees Bradley, Casad, and Mitchell.