Grant v. City of Long Beach

315 F.3d 1081 Jeffrey Allen GRANT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF LONG BEACH; Long Beach Police Department; Denise Slavin, esa Dennis Slavin; Unknown Hafkenshied, Defendants, and Katherine Watson; Joe Bahash, Defendants-Appellants. No. 01-56046. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 7, 2002. Filed December 16, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Timothy T. Coates, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants. Susan S. Lerner, Kutner, Rubinoff, Bush & Lerner, Miami, FL, for the plaintiff-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-09886 SVW. Before BRIGHT * , GOODWIN, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges. OPINION GOODWIN, Circuit Judge. 1 Two city police officers appeal a judgment for damages following a jury verdict in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought against the city and the individual officers. We affirm. I. Introduction and Procedural History 2 Jeffrey Allen Grant was arrested and charged with a series of highly publicized rapes and related felonies (the "Belmont Shores rapes") that occurred…