G & G Jewelry, Inc. v. City Of Oakland

989 F.2d 1093 G & G JEWELRY, INC., dba United Jewelry Mart; Robert P. Goldstone, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF OAKLAND, Henry L. Gardner, City Manager; George T. Hart, Chief of Police; Thomas O. Donahue, Deputy Chief of Police; Jay Crawford, Sergeant; Craig D. Stewart, Sergeant; Jonathan Madarang, Officer; Jane W. Williams, City Attorney; Wendy P. Rouder, Assistant City Attorney, Defendants-Appellees. No. 90-15771. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 10, 1991. Decided March 31, 1993. Henry O. Noffsinger, Pleasant Hill, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants. Diane J. Simon, Asst. to the City Atty., City of Oakland, Catherine M. Steane, Oakland, CA, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before: HUG, SCHROEDER and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges. HUG, Circuit Judge: 1 This case concerns the warrantless seizure from a pawnshop of property that had been reported stolen. The owner of the pawnshop contends that the police did not faithfully follow the provisions of a California statute designed to deal with this situation. Further, he contends that this warrantless seizure violated the…