Headwaters Forest Defense v. County of Humboldt, No. 98-17250 (9th Cir.) (276 F.3d 1125) (January 11, 2002) (Judge Harry Pregerson)
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2002
published in Punch and Jurists
January 14, 2002
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Here, on remand from the Supreme Court, a panel reaffirmed a prior decision in which it had held that police officers were not entitled to assert the defense of qualified immunity in a case where they used pepper spray on peaceful protestors.
In the fall of 1997, a …
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