Manning & Kass Earns Reversal of District Court's MSJ Order for Defendant LAPD Officer

Los Angeles Partner Lynn L. Carpenter and Founding Partner Eugene P. Ramirez lead a team that recently earned a reversal by the Ninth Circuit on a District Court's denial of qualified immunity in the case of Turner v City of Los Angeles. 

The District Court had originally denied the motion for summary judgment when the motion was first argued. Carpenter argued that our client, a Los Angeles Police Department officer, was entitled to qualified immunity, which protects government officials who are accused of violating constitutional rights. The incident in question occurred on March 22, 2017, when an officer used a taser on a suspect who had attempted to rob and threatened to rape an SEC lawyer on her way to work and then vigorously resisted officers' efforts to take him into custody to investigate the allegations.

After the initial motion was denied, the case was brought before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, whereupon the court reversed the decision and granted qualified immunity to the defendant officer. With the aid of Los Angeles Partner Steven J. Renick and retired law and motion specialist Partner Kevin Louth, the Manning & Kass team was able to earn an important victory for our client.