GUERRA v. SUTTON

Nos. 84-4207, 84-4208 and 86-3536.

783 F.2d 1371 (1986)

Roselia GUERRA, Jorges Equihua, Moises Flores, Alicia Flores, Ralph Ortiz, Francisco Martinez and Rosalba Martinez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Roy SUTTON, individually and in his official capacity as Chief Criminal Investigator for the Yakima, Washington office of INS; Roy C. Johnson, Paul A. Lowry, Robert J. Miller, Warren C. Goodwin, Joe A. Turner, individually and in their capacity as Border Patrol Agents; Steve Patterson, Tom DeWitt, James Robinson, and Dan Wells, individually and in their capacity as investigators for INS, Defendants-Appellees. Roselia GUERRA, Jorges Equihua, Moises Flores, Alicia Flores, Ralph Ortiz, Francisco Martinez and Rosalba Martinez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee. Roselia GUERRA, Jorges Equihua, Moises Flores, Alicia Flores, Ralph Ortiz, Francisco Martinez and Rosalba Martinez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca Smith, Granger, Wash., for plaintiffs-appellants.

William H. Beatty, Asst. U.S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., for defendants-appellees.

Before WRIGHT, CANBY and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.


WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Seven appellants appeal the district court's dismissal of their Bivens and Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671-80 (FTCA), actions after a bench trial. Appellants claim that the trial court erred in holding that the federal employee defendants were immune from suit because of their reasonable reliance on the local police for warrants for searches in which the federal defendants may have participated. In addition, appellants...

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