Ovando v. City of Los Angeles

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION TO DISMISS AND CERTIFYING THIS ORDER FOR INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL [FED.R.CIV.P. 12(b)(6); 28 U.S.C. § 1292(B) ]

FEESS, District Judge.

I

INTRODUCTION

This is a lawsuit arising out of what has become known in both the local and national media as the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) “Rampart” scandal. First exposed by former LAPD Officer Rafael Perez (“Perez”), one of the named defendants in this case, the events involved in the Rampart affair reportedly include a wide variety of misconduct by LAPD officers including the shooting of unarmed…