Torres

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RAYMOND TORRES; MARIA ELVA 

ALMADOR-TORRES,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. No. 06-55817

CITY OF LOS ANGELES; LOS

ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT;  D.C. No.

CV-05-04171-RGK

BRAD ROBERTS, LAPD Detective;

JENNIFER HICKMAN, LAPD OPINION

Detective; STEVE PARK, LAPD Detective; F. RAINS, LAPD Detective, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California R. Gary Klausner, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 12, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed August 26, 2008

Before: Betty B. Fletcher and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Samuel P. King,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge B. Fletcher

*The Honorable Samuel P. King, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, sitting by designation.

11723 TORRES v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES 11727

COUNSEL

Nelson E. Brestoff (argued), Moskowitz, Brestoff, Winston & Blinderman, LLP, Valencia, California, Julia A. Follansbee, Follansbee & Associates, Bend, Oregon, for the plaintiffs- appellants.

Rockard J. Delgadillo,…