Sightler

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

DEMETRICE SIGHTLER, CASE NO. 15cv2235-LAB (MSB)

Plaintiff,

ORDER ON REMAND

vs. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, et al., Defendants.

In March 2018, this Court granted in part and denied in part Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment. As relevant here, the Court found that the City of San Diego was not liable for harms to Plaintiff Demetrice Sightler, but that there were triable issues of fact as to whether the individual officers were liable. It also held that the individual officers were not entitled to qualified immunity. The Ninth Circuit disagreed, finding that while Sightler plausibly alleged the officers violated his Fourth Amendment rights, he had not identified “sufficiently specific constitutional precedents to alert [Defendants that their] particular conduct was unlawful.” Shafer v. Cty. of Santa Barbara, 868 F.3d 1110, 1118 (9th Cir. 2017). Accordingly, the appellate court reversed with directions to enter judgment in favor of the individual…