Vernon v. City of Los Angeles

27 F.3d 1385 65 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 465 Robert L. VERNON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES; Los Angeles City Council; Board of Police Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles; Zev Yaroslavsky, individually and as Los Angeles City Councilman; Stanley Sheinbaum, individually and as Commissioner Board of Police Commissioners; Jesse Brewer, et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 92-55473. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Oct. 6, 1993. Decided June 23, 1994. 1 William Bently Ball, Elizabeth B. Place, Ball, Skelly, Murren & Cornell, Harrisburg, PA, David L. Casterline, Casterline & Agajanian, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiff-appellant. 2 Louis R. Miller, Shari J. Cohen, Christensen, White, Miller, Fink & Jacobs, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees. 3 Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. 4 Before: FLETCHER and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and WILL * , Senior District Judge. 5 Opinion by Judge WILL. WILL, Senior District Judge: 6 Plaintiff Robert L. Vernon, retired Assistant Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in…