Legal Opinion
Figueroa v. Gates
District Court, C.D. California
Decided June 11, 2002No. Civ.00-4158 ABCPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLLINS, District Judge.
This case arises out of the shooting deaths of two men, Jose Figueroa and Mario Guerrero (the “decedents”), by the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) Special Investigations Section (“SIS”). Forty-one defendants have moved for summary judgment or, alternatively, for a summary adjudication of issues and for bifurcation of the “Monell” claims for municipal Lability. 1 The motions came on regularly for hearing before this court on June 10, 2002. At the conclusion of oral argument, the Court took the matter under submission to consider several new authorities cited by…
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- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Graham v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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