AGUILERA v. BACA

No. 05-56617.

510 F.3d 1161 (2007)

Elizabeth AGUILERA; Phillip Arellano; Benjamin Bardon; Gustavo Carrillo; Hector Ramirez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Leroy BACA, individually and as Sheriff of the County of Los Angeles; William Stonich, individually and as Under Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Larry Waldie, individually and as Assistant Sheriff of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; William McSweeney, individually and as Commander of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Neil Tyler, individually and as Commander of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Thomas Angel, individually and as Commander of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Arthur Ng, individually and as Captain of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Alan Smith, individually and as Lieutenant of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Margaret Wagner, individually and as Lieutenant of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Russell Kagy, individually and as Sergeant of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Brian Proctor, individually and as Sergeant of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; County of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth J. Gibbons, Encino, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Paul B. Beach and Jin S. Choi, Glendale, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.


Opinion by Judge TALLMAN; Dissent by Chief Judge KOZINSKI.

TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, various Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies, appeal an adverse summary judgment in favor of Sheriff Leroy Baca, the Sheriff's Department, other supervisory officers, and internal affairs investigators. The deputies allege that they were improperly detained at the East Los Angeles Sheriff's Station and later punished through involuntary shift transfers for failing...

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