United States Ninth Circuit
Tennison v. City and County of San Francisco, 06-15426
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on Defendant-Officers' alleged withholding of exculpatory evidence, the partial denial of Defendants' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity is affirmed, where police inspectors have a duty to disclose exculpatory evidence and a showing of bad faith was not required.
Appellate Information
- Argued 06/12/2007
- Decided 06/23/2009
- Published 06/22/2009
Judges
- TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- James A. Quadra, Moscone, Emblidge & Quadra, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendants-appellants Prentice Earl Sanders and Napoleon Hendrix., Elliot R. Peters, Keker & Van Nest, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellee John Tennison., John H. Scott, The Scott Law Firm, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellee Antoine Goff.