Legal Opinion
Cabrera v. City of Huntington Park
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 16, 1998No. Nos. 96-55268, 97-55431PublishedCited by 290 opinions
1Per curiam
Jose E. Cabrera appeals the dismissal of his § 1983 action, see 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994), against the City of Huntington Park and several of its police officers (collectively, “Huntington Park”).1 The district court held that Cabrera’s malicious prosecution claim was barred by res judicata because it constituted the same cause of action as a prior suit and that the rest of his § 1983 claims were barred by California’s one-year statute of limitations, see Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 340.3 (West 1998). For the reasons set forth below, we affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand for further…
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