HARPER v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Nos. 06-55519, 06-55715.

533 F.3d 1010 (2008)

Paul D. HARPER; Brian D. Liddy; Edward Ortiz, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES, a municipality; Bernard Parks, Defendants-Appellants, and County of Los Angeles; Gil Garcetti; Laura Laesecke; Anne Ingalls; Rafael Perez, Defendants. Paul D. Harper; Brian D. Liddy; Edward Ortiz, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. City of Los Angeles, a municipality; Bernard Parks, Defendants-Appellants, and County of Los Angeles; Gil Garcetti; Laura Laesecke; Anne Ingalls; Rafael Perez, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 14, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Horowitz, Office of Edward J. Horowitz, Pacific Palisades, CA; Dale B. Goldfarb, Harrington, Foxx, Dubrow & Canter, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich, The Ehrlich Law Firm, Claremont, CA; Joseph Y. Avrahamy, Law Offices of Joseph Y. Avrahamy, Encino, CA; Etan Z. Lorant, Law Offices of Etan Z. Lorant, Encino, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: JEROME FARRIS and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and FREDERIC BLOCK, District Judge.


PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

This case arises from the Los Angeles Police Department's ("LAPD") investigation and prosecution of three former police officers, Paul Harper, Brian Liddy, and Edward Ortiz. These officers were implicated in wrongdoing by former LAPD officer Rafael Perez in an event that came to be known as the "Rampart Scandal"—an event that, based on Perez's own unlawful conduct and his allegations of corruption at the Rampart Division, launched an internal...

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