Benito Acosta v. City of Costa Mesa

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: February 25, 2013
• Docket: 10-56854
• Status: Published

Opinion

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BENITO ACOSTA , No. 10-56854 Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. v. 8:06-cv-00233- DOC-MLG CITY OF COSTA MESA ; ALLAN Central District MANSOOR, Mayor of the City of of California, Costa Mesa, in his official and Santa Ana individual capacities, Defendants-Appellees, ORDER

JOHN HENSLEY , Chief of Police, Costa Mesa Police Department; DAVID ANDERSEN ; DAVID DEHUFF; JOHN DOEZIE ; BRYAN GLASS; DANIEL GUTH ; DAVID MAKIYAMA ; JEFF TOBIN ; DEREK TRUSK, in their official and individual capacities, Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California David O. Carter, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted July 9, 2012—Pasadena, California 2 ACOSTA V . CITY OF COSTA MESA

Filed February 25, 2013

Before: Richard C. Tallman and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges, and Dee V. Benson, District Judge.*

COUNSEL

Belinda E. Helzer, ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Orange, California, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

M. Lois Boback (argued) and Daniel K. Spradlin, Woodruff, Spradlin & Smart, APC, Costa Mesa, California, for Defendants-Appellees.

ORDER

The petition for panel rehearing is granted and the opinion filed September 5, 2012, and appearing at 694 F.3d 960 (9th Cir. 2012), is withdrawn. Carver v. Lehman, 558 F.3d 869, 878–79 (9th Cir. 2008) (a panel may withdraw an opinion sua sponte before the mandate issues). It may not be cited as precedent by or to this court or any district court of the Ninth Circuit. Withdrawal of the opinion moots the petition for rehearing en banc.

* The Honorable Dee V. Benson, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, sitting by designation.