United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging excessive force by Defendant officers, the District Court's grant of judgment as a matter of law to Defendant under Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) is reversed, where Defendant failed to file a Rule 50(a) motion prior to seeking relief under Rule 50(b).

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/12/2008
• Decided 03/03/2009
• Published 03/03/2009

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before:  PROCTER HUG, JR., ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paola M. Armeni and Dominic P. Gentile, Gordon & Silver, Ltd., Las Vegas, NV, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas D. Dillard, Jr. and Peter M. Angulo, Olson, Cannon, Gormley & Desruisseaux, Las Vegas, NV, for the appellees.