Los Angeles Police Protective League v. Gates

907 F.2d 879 LOS ANGELES POLICE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE, Plaintiff, and Roger Gibson, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daryl F. GATES, Chief of Police; Marvin Iannone; Charles Dinse; Don Vincent; Kenneth Colby; Robert Kellar; Harry Nearing; City of Los Angeles, Defendants-Appellants. No. 88-6504. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 12, 1990. Decided July 3, 1990. As Amended on Denial of Rehearing Sept. 18, 1990. Jack L. Brown, Asst. City Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Larry J. Roberts and Gregory G. Petersen, Petersen & Trott, Orange, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before BROWNING, NOONAN and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges. FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge: 1 Roger Gibson and the Los Angeles Police Protective League brought this action against the City of Los Angeles (City) and a number of employees of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Gibson, who had been a sergeant in the LAPD, claimed that his constitutional rights were violated when he was ordered to submit to an administrative search of his home and then terminated both for refusing to submit, and for…