United States Ninth Circuit

In this action brought by plaintiffs Gant and Ventura, they allege that they were mistakenly arrested and detained based on warrants for other people. Dismissal of plaintiffs' claims is affirmed in part and reversed in part, where: 1) Gant failed to show that defendants' failure to enter his judicial clearance, showing his prior exonerations, into the County Warrant System database violated his Fourth Amendment rights; 2) because Gant was detained for the purpose of receiving process and did receive a prompt hearing, his Fourteenth Amendment claim was properly dismissed 3) Ventura did not meet his burden of showing that his mistaken arrest was more than a single "isolated or sporadic" incident; and 4) conflicting evidence about whether Ventura complained to Los Angeles County defendants that they had the wrong person raised a genuine issue of material fact, and a trier of fact could conclude that Chino police officers' questioning was intended to coerce him.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/24/2014
• Published 11/24/2014

Judges

• Christen

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel