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INOUYE v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. B077707.

30 Cal.App.4th 278 (1994)

35 Cal. Rptr.2d 367

FRED INOUYE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

November 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Grassini & Wrinkle and Roland Wrinkle for Plaintiff and Appellant.

De Witt Clinton, County Counsel, Dennis M. Gonzales, Principal Deputy County Counsel, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Timothy T. Coates and Randel L. Ledesma for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

MASTERSON, J.

In this opinion we hold that Los Angeles County's (County) policy of deeming its off-duty safety police officers to not be engaged in the performance of their duties is ineffective to insulate the County from respondeat superior liability for the alleged wrongful conduct of an off-duty safety police officer in the course of making an arrest. We therefore reverse...

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