Friedman v. Boucher, No. 05-15675 (9th Cir.) (568 F.3d 1119) (June 23, 2009) (Judge Sidney R. Thomas)
Loaded on June 1, 2009
published in Punch and Jurists
June 01, 2009
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In this case, a divided panel from the Ninth Circuit held that a Las Vegas prosecutor and a police detective were not entitled to the defense of qualified immunity in a civil rights lawsuit for damages arising out of a forcible taking of a DNA sample from a pre-trial …
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