Legal Opinion
Xing Qian v. James R. Kautz, as the Chief of Police of the Long Beach Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 16, 1999No. 97-3295PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
When the events leading to this lawsuit began to unfold, ambiguous behavior combined with a severe language barrier led to the arrest of Xing Qian. At a critical point, however, the police concluded that Qian (whose lawyer identifies this as his surname) could be released. Because he did not want to pay for a hotel room, they then re-arrested him, consigned him to the drunk tank, and failed to recognize that he was suffering from a serious medical condition. This case is the ultimate consequence of those events. The district court granted summary judgment for the…
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