Kelvin Gant v. County of Los Angeles

This is a case of mistaken identity arising from the separate arrests and detentions of Kelvin Gant and Jose Alexander Ventura based on warrants intended for other people. Appellants filed over twenty federal and state law claims alleging that various defendants issued flawed warrants, improperly arrested them, or improperly detained them. The district court ruled against all of appellants’ claims in orders granting defendants’ motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We reverse the district court’s judgment on Ventura’s Fourteenth Amendment § 1983 claim against the L.A. County defendants and Ventura’s Bane Act claim against the Chino defendants. We otherwise affirm the district court’s rulings.

BACKGROUND

The defendants in this case are the County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department (“the L.A. County defendants”), the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department (“the L.A. City defendants”), the City of Chino and the Chino Police Department (“the Chino defendants”), and the County of San Bernardino and the San. Bernardino County Sheriffs Department (“the San…