Maropulos

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

THEODORE MAROPULOS; DONNA 

MAROPULOS; DANIELLE JACOBO;

NATHAN MAROPULOS; ELIZABETH

MAROPULOS; AARON MAROPULOS;

KATHERINE MAROPULOS; SHANNON

MAROPULOS; THOMAS MAROPULOS, No. 07-55873 Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.  D.C. No.

CV-04-01171-TJH

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; LEE OPINION

BACA,

Defendants, and

STEVE LANKFORD,

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Terry J. Hatter, Jr., District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted March 4, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed March 24, 2009

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Pamela Ann Rymer, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.

Per Curiam Opinion COUNSEL

Raymond W. Sakai, Lawrence Beach Allen & Choi, PC, Glendale, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Dale K. Galipo, Law Offices of Dale K. Galipo, Woodland Hills, California, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Steve Lankford appeals the district court’s order denying him qualified immu- nity on an…