Millender

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AUGUSTA MILLENDER, BRENDA 

MILLENDER, WILLIAM JOHNSON,

Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, LOS

ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S No. 07-55518

DEPARTMENT, SHERIFF LEROY BACA,

SCOTT WALKER, RICK RECTOR,  D.C. No.

CV-05-02298-DDP

DONALD NICHIPORUK, RICHARD

OPINION

SCHLEGEL, DEPUTY BRICE STELLA,

JACK DEMELLO, DAVID O’SULLIVAN,

JAMES RITENOUR, IAN STADE,

ROBERT J. LAWRENCE AND CURT

MESSERSCHMIDT,

Defendants-Appellants.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 21, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed May 6, 2009

Before: Ferdinand F. Fernandez, Consuelo M. Callahan and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Callahan; Concurrence by Judge Fernandez; Dissent by Judge Ikuta

5261 5264 MILLENDER v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

COUNSEL

Eugene P. Ramirez (argued) and Julie M. Fleming of Man- ning & Marder, Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, LLP, of Los Angeles, California for the defendants-appellants.

Olu K. Orange (argued), Robert…