Legal Opinion
City of Los Angeles v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 1, 1973No. Civ. 42140PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FLEMING, J.
Personal injury action for battery by a police officer. The basic issue in this application for extraordinary writ is the extent to which police department records of its officers are discoverable in a civil action as a matter of course.
Shirley Ann Ferguson, plaintiff herein, avers she was picnicking in a Los Angeles city park on 14 December 1969 when Officer Donald W. Murphy set upon her with a club and “struck, beat and bruised” her. The officer, she asserts, was acting within the course and scope of his employ ment as a member of the Los Angeles Police Department.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1970
- Ramos v. County of MaderaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1971
- Chronicle Publishing Co. v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1960
- Deevy v. TassiCalifornia Supreme Court · 1942
- Scruggs v. HaynesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1967
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Mary M. v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1991
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- Sanders v. KennedyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986
- Murillo v. Rite Stuff Foods, Inc.California Court of Appeal · 1998
- Jones v. JenningsAlaska Supreme Court · 1990
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