LATEST SUMMARIES

CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, GOVERNMENT LAW
• Beck v. City of Upland

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING
• US v. Santana

LATEST SUMMARIES

CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS, GOVERNMENT LAW
Beck v. City of Upland, No. 05-56901
In a suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 for various constitutional violations and for various state law causes of action against a city, its police department, and officers who engineered plaintiff's arrest, summary judgment against plaintiff is reversed where: 1) on the summary judgment record, plaintiff demonstrated with regard to either of the asserted constitutional violations that a prosecutor's actions were not an intervening cause shielding the officers from liability; 2) officers lacked qualified immunity; and 3) officers could not avail themselves of the California statutory immunity they asserted. Read more...

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING
US v. Santana, No. 07-50190
A decision revoke defendant's supervised release and imposing a new term of imprisonment and supervised release is affirmed over claims that: 1) his right to prompt disposition of the petition to revoke his supervised release was violated by the government's unjustified delays in executing a warrant for his arrest and in bringing him before a judge for his initial appearance; and 2) the procedure for revocation of supervised release is unconstitutional in light of Cunningham v. California. Read more...