Knickerbocker
Knickerbocker v. United States Department of Interior, Death Valley National Park, National Park Service
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ISSAM ELIE KNICKERBOCKER, No. 1:16-cv-01811-DAD-JLT Plaintiff, v. ORDER DISCHARGING ORDER TO SHOW
CAUSE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., (Doc. No. 110 at 13 n.5) Defendants.
16 On March 24, 2020, the court issued an order granting the motion for summary judgment filed by defendants United States of America, Park Service Ranger Nicole Gruver, and Park Service Ranger Brian Drew (collectively, “defendants”). (Doc. No. 110.) The court found that plaintiff’s claims—that the rangers used excessive force in handcuffing him and that they unlawfully seized him in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights, as well as his related state law claims—failed as a matter of law. (See id. at 6–20.) In so holding, the court found that plaintiff’s claims were “blatantly contradicted by the body camera video footage before the court on summary judgment.” (Id. at 12.) In an earlier order denying defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiff’s…