Legal Opinion
Thomas Goldstein v. City of Long Beach
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 8, 2013No. 10-56787PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
We consider in this case whether a district attorney acts as a local or a state official when establishing policy and training related to the use of jailhouse informants. We find that, as to the policies at issue here, the district attorney was acting as a final policymaker 'for the County of Los Angeles. We thus reverse the district court’s grant of the motion for judgment on the pleadings and remand the case.1
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Thomas Goldstein spent 24 years in prison after being convicted for murder based largely upon the perjured testimony of an unreliable jailhouse informant,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Will v. Michigan Department of State PoliceSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Imbler v. PachtmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Pembaur v. City of CincinnatiSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Calderon v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- Manuel Vasquez v. Tony RackauckasCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2013
- Pit River Tribe v. Bureau of Land ManagementCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2015
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