Baldwin v. Placer County

405 F.3d 778 Michael W. BALDWIN, DDS; Georgia Chacko, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PLACER COUNTY; Tracy Grant; Ron Goodpaster; Brian Wiggam; Kevin Besana; Stephen L. D'Arcy; Jeffery Potter; Placer County Sheriff's Department; Officer Reed, Defendants-Appellants. No. 04-15848. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 18, 2005. Filed April 19, 2005. David K. Huskey, Auburn, CA, for the defendants-appellants. J. David Nick, San Francisco, CA, and Paul R. Turley, Oakland, CA, Kate Wells, Santa Cruz, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California; Morrison C. England, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-01-01177-MCE. Before: NOONAN, THOMAS, and FISHER, Circuit Judges. NOONAN, Circuit Judge. 1 Placer County and several of its police officers (collectively, the County) have taken this interlocutory appeal from the district court's denial of their motion for qualified immunity in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought by Michael Baldwin and Georgia Chacko (the plaintiffs). On the basis of the facts conceded as undisputed by the County for purposes of this appeal, we hold that the…