ANDREWS v. CITY OF HENDERSON

No. 20-17053.

35 F.4th 710 (2022)

Daniel ANDREWS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF HENDERSON; Phillip Watford; Karl Lippisch, Defendants-Appellants, and Henderson Police Department; Joseph W. Ebert; R. Adams; K. Lapeer; K. Lippisch, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Oh (argued), Senior Assistant City Attorney; Nicholas G. Vaskov , City Attorney; Office of the City Attorney, Henderson, Nevada; for Defendants-Appellants.

Peter Goldstein (argued), Peter Goldstein Law Corp., Las Vegas, Nevada, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: Eugene E. Siler, Morgan Christen, and Danielle J. Forrest, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Plaintiff Daniel Andrews exited a Nevada state courthouse and, without warning, two plainclothes detectives tackled him to the ground, fracturing his hip. Andrews was not resisting, fleeing, or committing a crime. Moreover, because he had just passed through the courthouse's security checkpoint, including...

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