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MENDEZ v. COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO

Nos. 05-56118, 06-56424, 07-56029.

540 F.3d 1109 (2008)

Evangelina MENDEZ; Angel Mendez, Plaintiffs, and Arturo Jorge Gonzalez, Appellant, v. COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO; San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department; City of Hesperia; James Martinez; Rod Medley; Marion Browne; Cesar Reyes, Defendants-Appellees. Evangelina Mendez; Angel Mendez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Jose Mendez; Tiffany Autrey, Plaintiffs, v. County of San Bernardino; San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department; City of Hesperia; James Martinez; Rod Medley; Marion Browne; Cesar Reyes; Steven Lawyer, Defendants-Appellees. Evangelina Mendez; Angel Mendez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Arturo Jorge Gonzalez, Appellant, v. County of San Bernardino; San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department; City of Hesperia; James Martinez; Rod Medley; Marion Browne; Cesar Reyes, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 27, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shirley M. Hufstedler (argued), Morrison & Foerster, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Arturo J. Gonzalez, Tony West (argued), and Geoffrey Graber, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Eugene P. Ramirez, Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, & Ramirez, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Patrick L. Hurley (argued), Manning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, & Ramirez, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Brad Seligman, The Impact Fund, Berkeley, CA; Robert Rubin, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, CA, for the amici curiae The Impact Fund and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Before: STEPHEN S. TROTT, HAWKINS and RAYMOND C. FISHER, Circuit Judges.

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Evangelina Mendez ("Mendez") and members of her family brought this suit against the County of San Bernardino, the City of Hesperia, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department and various individual defendants (collectively, "the County") under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, alleging violations of their civil rights. This case arose from the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of Mendez...

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