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CHEW v. GATES

No. 91-55718.

27 F.3d 1432 (1994)

Thane Carl CHEW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Daryl GATES, individually and as Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; City of Los Angeles, a Municipal Corporation and Public Entity of the State of California; and Daniel Bunch; Donald Yarnall; Mark Mooring; Patrick McKinley; and Does 1 through 10, 14, 16 through 20, inclusive, each individually and as a Los Angeles Police Officer, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George V. Denny, III, Los Angeles, CA, and Ralph Leardo, Law Offices of Nancy Ann Fellom, San Francisco, CA, (argued) for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard M. Helgeson, Asst. City Atty., Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees.

Before: NORRIS, REINHARDT, and TROTT, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge REINHARDT; Partial Concurrences and Partial Dissents by Judges NORRIS and TROTT.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

On appeal, Thane Carl Chew seeks the right to pursue his claims for damages resulting from dog bites inflicted on him by a police dog the Los Angeles Police Department uses to capture suspected criminals. Chew brought his action in federal district court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983. He sued the City of Los Angeles, Police Chief...

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