United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on allegedly excessive force by police, summary judgment for Defendants is reversed where the "sham affidavit" rule does not preclude the introduction of testimony from other witnesses that is arguably inconsistent with a plaintiff's deposition testimony.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/13/2009
• Decided 07/07/2009
• Published 07/07/2009

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge:, Before:  J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, SIDNEY R. THOMAS and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Burris and Adanté D. Pointer;  Law Offices of John L. Burris;  Oakland, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Scott Smith, Douglas R. Thorn, and John A. Whitesides;  Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff;  Sacramento, CA, for appellees City of Davis, James Hyde, and John Wilson., Michael T. Lucey, Don Willenburg, and Mar S. Posard;  Gordon & Rees, LLP;  San Francisco, CA, for appellees Javier Barragan, Mary Garcia, and Calivin Handy., Kelli M. Kennaday and Kim Johnston;  Wilke, Feury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney;  Sacramento, CA, for appellee Calvin Chang.