United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that a city ordinance under which Plaintiff's vehicle was towed was invalid under state law, summary judgment for Plaintiff is reversed, where Plaintiff's claim that the ordinance contravened state law failed to raise a colorable federal question.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/07/2009
• Decided 07/10/2009
• Published 07/10/2009

Judges

• Before: B. FLETCHER, RAYMOND C. FISHER and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney;  Laurie Rittenberg, Assistant City Attorney;  and Michael D. Nagle (argued), Deputy City Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant-cross-appellee., George M. Wallace, Wallace, Brown & Schwartz, Pasadena, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.