Henderson v. City Of Simi Valley

305 F.3d 1052 Eleanor HENDERSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF SIMI VALLEY; Randy Adams, Chief, individually and as the Chief; George Godfrey, Officer; May, Officer, Badge # 318; Samarin, Officer, Badge # 097, Defendants-Appellees. No. 01-55304. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 4, 2002. Filed September 24, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Earnest C.S. Bell, Ventura, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant. Martin R. Berman, Law Offices of James Aaron Pflaster, Los Angeles, CA, and David H. Hirsch, City Attorney for Simi Valley, Simi Valley, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Carlos R. Moreno, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-00-02191-CRM. Before BROWNING, THOMAS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge. 1 It is a sad state of affairs when police officers must stand between a mother and her minor daughter to keep the peace. The aftermath of such a situation brings this case before us. We must decide whether the defendant police officers violated the mother's constitutional rights in their efforts to keep the peace, and whether they used…