Charles Dirks v. Joe Grasso

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SEP 02 2011

MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

CHARLES DIRKS, No. 09-56187

Plaintiff - Appellee, D.C. No. 2:07-cv-02664-GAF-

FMO

v.

JOE GRASSO; et al., MEMORANDUM*

Defendants - Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary A. Feess, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 9, 2010 Pasadena, California

Before: NOONAN, BERZON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officers appeal the district court’s

order denying in part their renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law in a suit

brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Professor Charles Dirks (“Dirks”). The

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. officers—Sargent Joe Grasso (“Grasso”) and Deputies Ricky Baker and Darren

Inana (“Baker” and “Inana”)—brought the renewed motion after a jury deadlocked

on Dirks’s unlawful arrest and…