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CHAUDHRY v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Nos. 11-55820, 11-55906, 11-55907.

751 F.3d 1096 (2014)

Rukhsana CHAUDHRY; Mohammad Afzal Chaudhry; Usma Chaudhry; Mohammad Umar Chaudhry; Estate of Mohammad Usman Chaudhry; Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES; Joseph Cruz; David Romo; County of Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Coroner Department; Anthony Hernandez; Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, Defendants-Appellees, and Los Angeles Police Department; William Bratton, Defendants. Rukhsana Chaudhry; Mohammad Afzal Chaudhry; Usma Chaudhry; Mohammad Umar Chaudhry; Estate of Mohammad Usman Chaudhry; Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Plaintiff, v. City of Los Angeles, Defendant-Appellant, and Joseph Cruz; David Romo; County of Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Coroner Department; Anthony Hernandez; Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran; Los Angeles Police Department; William Bratton, Defendants. Rukhsana Chaudhry; Mohammad Afzal Chaudhry; Usma Chaudhry; Mohammad Umar Chaudhry; Estate of Mohammad Usman Chaudhry; Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Plaintiff, v. Joseph Cruz, Defendant-Appellant, and City of Los Angeles; David Romo; County of Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Coroner Department; Anthony Hernandez; Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran; Los Angeles Police Department; William Bratton, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 19, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olu K. Orange (argued), Orange Law Offices, Los Angeles, CA; Donald W. Cook and Robert Mann , Mann & Cook, Los Angeles, CA; Paula Dee Pearlman , Disability Rights Legal Center, Los Angeles, CA; Ameena Mirza Qazi , Council on American-Islamic Relations, California, Anaheim, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Blithe Smith Bock (argued), Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, CA; Jules Solomon Zeman (argued), Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Alison McIlvaine Turner (argued) and Timothy T. Coates , Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Patricia E. Ellyatt , and Kenneth Maranga, Maranga & Morgenstein, Woodland Hills, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, MILAN D. SMITH, JR., and PAUL J. WATFORD, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Early in the morning of March 25, 2008, Mohammad Usman Chaudhry ("Usman") was shot and killed by Los Angeles Police Officer Joseph Cruz. Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner ("the Coroner") took custody of Usman's body, but it did not notify his family of his death for twenty-one days. This delay prevented Usman's family from burying him in accordance with their religion.

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