Legal Opinion
Paterson v. City of Los Angeles
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 16, 2009No. B208682PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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ARMSTRONG, Acting P. J.
Appellants Robert and Scarlett Paterson (hereafter R. Paterson or S. Paterson, respectively) are Los Angeles police officers, married to each other. In December 2004,R. Paterson called in sick. A supervisor, Lieutenant Raymond Garvin, suspected that he was not sick, but was abusing sick time. Garvin instructed Sergeant Adrian Legaspi to go to the Paterson home to find out. Legaspi spoke to both appellants, and both were the subject of internal LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) misconduct complaints alleging that they had made false and misleading statements to…
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