Legal Opinion
Francisco Jose Rivero Pacific Internment Services, a California Corporation v. City and County of San Francisco, and Joseph Surdyka Boyd Stephens
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 20, 2002No. 00-17113PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.
In this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a magistrate judge denied defendants Joseph Surdyka and Boyd Stephens’s pretrial motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. After trial, the jury returned a damage verdict against Surdyka and Stephens. The magistrate judge denied Surdyka and Stephens’s post-trial motion for judgment as a matter of law based on qualified immunity, but ordered a new trial based on inconsistency in the verdict. Before the second trial could take place, a district judge granted summary judgment to Surdyka and Stephens on…
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