Legal Opinion
Nava v. City of Dublin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1997No. 95-16209PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge SKOPIL; Concurrence by Judge FLETCHER.
SKOPIL, Circuit Judge:
We examine in this appeal the propriety of the district court’s entry of a permanent injunction preventing the California Highway Patrol (“CHP”) from authorizing its officers to apply the carotid hold, a type of ehokehold used to subdue resisting suspects, unless application of the ehokehold is necessary to prevent death or serious bodily harm to an officer or third party.
Facts and Prior Proceedings
On April 15, 1992, Randolph Bennett was stopped by CHP officer James Williams for illegally walking on the shoulder of…
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