Luong v. City & County of San Francisco Police Department

I respectfully dissent from the portion of the court’s disposition affirming summary judgment as to the Luongs’ unlawful arrest and seizure claims. Our circuit has only applied the collective knowledge doctrine where there has been some communication between officers working together on an investigation. United States v. Ramirez, 473 F.3d 1026, 1032 (9th Cir.2007) (“[W]e have been willing to aggregate the facts known to each of the officers involved at least when there has been communication among agents.” (internal quotation marks, alterations, and citations omitted)). Here the district…