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DAHLIA v. RODRIGUEZ

No. 10-55978.

689 F.3d 1094 (2012)

Angelo DAHLIA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Omar RODRIGUEZ, individually and as a Lieutenant of the Burbank Police Department; John Murphy, individually and as a Lieutenant of the Burbank Police Department; Edgar Penaranda, individually and as a Sergeant of the Burbank Police Department; Jose Duran, individually and as a Sergeant of the Burbank Police Department; Chris Canales, individually and as a Detective of the Burbank Police Department, Defendants-Appellees, and City of Burbank, a municipal corporation; Tim Stehr, individually, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 7, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. McGill , Michael A. Morguess , and Russell M. Perry , Lackie, Dammeier & McGill APC, Upland, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Angelo Dahlia.

Michael Simidjian and Kenneth C. Yuwiler , Silver, Hadden, Silver, Wexler, & Levine, Santa Monica, CA, for defendant-appellee Omar Rodriguez.

Michael Logan Rains , Harry S. Stern and Lara Cullinane-Smith , Rains, Lucia, Stern PC, Pleasant Hill, CA, for defendant-appellee Edgar Penaranda.

Patricia Kinaga and Arthur B. Walsh , Kinaga Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA, and Gregory Glenn Petersen , Hunt, Ortmann, Nieves, Lubka, Darling & Mah, Inc., Irvine, CA, for defendant-appellee Jose Duran.

Patricia Kinaga and Arthur B. Walsh , Kinaga Law Firm, Los Angeles, CA, and Gregory Glenn Petersen , Hunt, Ortmann, Nieves, Lubka, Darling & Mah, Inc., Irvine, CA, for defendant-appellee Chris Canales.

Carol Ann Humiston , Office of the City Attorney, Burbank, CA, and Richard Terzian , Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee City of Burbank.

Eugene Philip Ramirez and Steven Jeff Renick , Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee John Murphy.

Carol Ann Humiston , Office of the City Attorney, Burbank, CA, for defendant Tim Stehr.

Before: KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RICHARD A. PAEZ, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:

I.

Four days after Angelo Dahlia, a detective in the City of Burbank Police Department, disclosed the alleged use of abusive interrogation tactics by his colleagues to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, he was placed on administrative leave by Chief of Police Tim Stehr. That decision prompted Dahlia to file a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against Stehr and lieutenants, sergeants, and a detective of the Burbank Police...

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